Flame kernel characterization of laser ignition of natural gasair mixture in a constant volume combustion chamber

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1201-1209

  Srivastava, Dhananjay Kumar ^a   Dharamshi, Kewal ^a   Agarwal, Avinash Kumar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Constant volume combustion chamber; Flame kernel development; Laser beam profile; Laser ignition; Plasma formation

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT VOLUME COMBUSTION CHAMBERS; FLAME KERNEL; LASER BEAM PROFILE; LASER IGNITION; PLASMA FORMATION;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMBUSTION CHAMBERS; EXPERIMENTS; IGNITION SYSTEMS; LASER DIAGNOSTICS; LASER WINDOWS; MIXTURES;

IGNITION;

EID: 79959855555     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2011.04.015     Document Type: Article

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