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A tomographic technique for the simultaneous imaging of temperature, chemical species, and pressure in reactive flows using absorption spectroscopy with frequency-agile lasers. Cai W, Kaminski CF, Applied Physics Letters, 104, 034101, (2014). DOI: 10.1063/1.4862754  | pdf

Abstract

This paper proposes a technique that can simultaneously retrieve distributions of temperature, concentration of chemical species, and pressure based on broad bandwidth, frequency-agile tomographic absorption spectroscopy. The technique holds particular promise for the study of dynamic combusting flows. A proof-of-concept numerical demonstration is presented, using representative phantoms to model conditions typically prevailing in near-atmospheric or high pressure flames. The simulations reveal both the feasibility of the proposed technique and its robustness. Our calculations indicate precisions of 70K at flame temperatures and 0.05 bars at high pressure from reconstructions featuring as much as 5% Gaussian noise in the projections.

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