Laser ignition of engines - A realistic option!

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6053, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Weinrotter, M ^a   Srivastava, D K ^a,c   Iskra, K ^b   Graf, J ^a,c   Kopecek, H ^a,d   Klausner, J ^e   Herdin, G ^e   Wintner, E ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^d GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e NONE

Author keywords

High pressure gas mixtures; Laser ignition; Laser initiated combustion; Lean gas mixtures; Methane and hydrogen fuels; Multipoint ignition; Schlieren spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELECTRODES; EROSION; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; LASER APPLICATIONS; Q SWITCHED LASERS;

HIGH-PRESSURE GAS MIXTURES; LASER IGNITION; LASER-INITIATED COMBUSTION; LEAN GAS MIXTURES; METHANE AND HYDROGEN FUELS; MULTIPOINT IGNITION; SCHLIEREN SPECTROSCOPY;

IGNITION;

EID: 33645218531     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.660458     Document Type: Conference Paper

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