A novel plasma heater for auto-ignition studies of turbulent non-premixed flows

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Eitel, Felix ^a   Pareja, Jhon ^a   Geyer, Dirk ^b   Johchi, Ayane ^c   Michel, Florian ^a   Elsäßer, Wolfgang ^a   Dreizler, Andreas ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; PLASMA HEATING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY;

CHEMILUMINESCENCE IMAGING; FLAME PROPAGATION; FLAME STABILIZATION; LIFTOFF HEIGHT; MEASUREMENTS OF; MICROWAVE PLASMA; TURBULENT NON-PREMIXED; VELOCITY FIELD;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84942324551     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-015-2059-7     Document Type: Article

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