Digital imaging-based three-dimensional characterization of flame front structures in a turbulent flame

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1073-1078

  Bheemul, Harrish Chandr ^a,c   Lu, Gang ^b   Yan, Yong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c University London College   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contour extraction; Digital image processing; Flame front; Mesh generation; Multicamera; Three dimensional (3 D) reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLAME RESEARCH; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

CONTOUR EXTRACTION; FLAME FRONT; MESH GENERATION; MULTICAMERA; THREE DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION; TURBULENT FLAME;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 20544454131     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2005.847238     Document Type: Article

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