High-speed fuel tracer fluorescence and OH radical chemiluminescence imaging in a spark-ignition direct-injection engine

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 31, 2005, Pages 6682-6691

  Smith, James D ^a   Sick, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMILUMINESCENCE; EXCIMER LASERS; FLUORESCENCE; IGNITION; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES;

PLANAR LASER-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE (PLIF); REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE (RPM);

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 28444491403     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.006682     Document Type: Conference Paper

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