Flame flow tagging velocimetry with 193-nm H2O photodissociation

In a new nonintrusive, instantaneous flow tagging method called hydroxyl tagging velocimetry (HTV), a molecular grid of hydroxyl (OH) radicals is written into a flame and the displaced grid is imaged at a later time to give the flame's velocity profile. Single-photon photodissociation of vibrationally excited H(2)O, when a 193-nm ArF excimer laser is used, produces a tag line of superequilibrium OH and H photoproducts in a high-temperature flow field that itself may contain ambient OH. The tag line OH concentration is composed mostly of direct OH photoproducts, but OH is also indirectly produced through H photoproduct reactions with oxygen-bearing species. For lean and modestly rich flames the OH tag lifetime is of the order of 1 ms. For very rich H(2)-air flames (equivalence ratio of 4.4) the lifetime drops to 200 ns. After displacement the position of the OH tag line is revealed through fluorescence caused by OH (A-X) (3 <-- 0) excitation by using a 248-nm tunable KrF excimer laser. A HTV grid of multiple tag lines, providing multipoint velocity information, is experimentally demonstrated in a turbulent H(2)/N(2)-air diffusion flame.     

Hydroxyl tagging velocimetry method optimization: signal intensity and spectroscopy

The previously demonstrated nonintrusive time-of-flight molecular velocity tagging method, hydroxyl tagging velocimetry (HTV), has shown the capability of operating both at room temperature and in flames. Well-characterized jets of either air (nonreacting cases) or hydrogen-air diffusion flames (reacting cases) are employed. A 7 x 7 OH line grid is generated first through the single-photon photodissociation of H2O by a approximately 193 nm pulsed narrowband ArF excimer laser and is subsequently revealed by a read laser sheet through fluorescence caused by A2sigma+(v' = 3) <-- X2pi(i)(v' = 0), A2sigma+(v' = 1) <-- X2pi(i)(v' = 0), or A2sigma+(v' = 0) < or = X2pi(i)(v' = 0) pumping at approximately 248, approximately 282, or approximately 308 nm, respectively. A detailed discussion of the spectroscopy and relative signal intensity of these various read techniques is presented, and the implications for optimal HTV performance are discussed.     

Application of quantitative two-line OH planar laser-induced fluorescence for temporally resolved planar thermometry in reacting flows

A temporally resolved approach for measurement of two-dimensional temperature fields in reacting flows is experimentally investigated. The method, based on planar laser-induced fluorescence of the hydroxyl (OH) radical, is applicable in many combustion environments, including variable density flow fields. As a means of examining the accuracy of the technique, temperature images, from 1300 to 3000 K and 0.4 to 3 atm, have been acquired in shock-heated H(2)-O(2)-Ar flows with a two-laser, two-image ratio scheme. A complete measurement system for producing accurate, effectively instantaneous temperature images is described; the system includes single-shot monitors for laser-sheet energy distributions and spectral profiles. Temperature images obtained with the OH A(2)Σ(+) ? X(2)II (1, 0) P(1)(7)-Q(2)(11) transition pair exhibit a systematic error of only 7% over the entire range of conditions, with the error most likely dominated by shot-to-shot fluctuations in the lasers'spectral profiles. The largest error source in the instantaneous temperature images is photon shot noise. A group of OH transition pairs that provide good temperature sensitivity and strong signals for reduced shot-noise error over a range of flow-field conditions is also presented.     

Unsteady compressible flow in the stagnation region of two-dimensional and axi-symmetric bodies

Summary This paper deals with a new similarity solution of unsteady laminar compressible two-dimensional and axi-symmetric boundary layers. It has been shown that a self-similar solution is possible when the free stream velocity varies inversely with time. The two-point boundary value problems governed by self-similar equations have been solved numerically using an implicit finite difference scheme in combination with the quasi-linearization technique. It is observed that the effect of the acceleration parameter (A) in the free stream velocity on the skin friction is more pronounced compared to the heat transfer. For certain values of the acceleration parameter and the total enthalpy at the wall, the surface shear stress (skin friction) vanishes. The skin friction and heat transfer increase due to suction, and the effect of injection is found to be just opposite. Velocity profiles are presented with reverse flow and without reverse flow depending on the values of toal enthalpy at the wall and the acceleration parameter.     

Femtosecond laser electronic excitation tagging for quantitative velocity imaging in air

Time-accurate velocity measurements in unseeded air are made by tagging nitrogen with a femtosecond-duration laser pulse and monitoring the displacement of the molecules with a time-delayed, fast-gated camera. Centimeter-long lines are written through the focal region of a ～1?mJ, 810?nm laser and are produced by nonlinear excitation and dissociation of nitrogen. Negligible heating is associated with this interaction. The emission arises from recombining nitrogen atoms and lasts for tens of microseconds in natural air. It falls into the 560 to 660?nm spectral region and consists of multiple spectral lines associated with first positive nitrogen transitions. The feasibility of this concept is demonstrated with lines written across a free jet, yielding instantaneous and averaged velocity profiles. The use of high-intensity femtosecond pulses for flow tagging allows the accurate determination of velocity profiles with a single laser system and camera.     

One-Dimensional, Time-Resolved Raman Measurements in a Sooting Flame made with 355-nm Excitation

Single-shot vibrational Raman measurements were performed along an 11-mm-long line crossing the reaction zone in a premixed, fuel-rich (phi = 10), laminar methane-air flame by use of a frequency-tripled Nd:YAG laser with a 355-nm emission wavelength. This laser source seems to have advantages relative to KrF excimer lasers as well as to Nd:YAG lasers at 532 nm for hydrocarbon combustion diagnostics. The Raman emissions of all major species (N(2), O(2), CH(4), H(2), CO(2), H(2)O) were detected simultaneously with a spatial resolution of 0.4 mm. By integration over selected spectral intervals, the mole fractions of all species and subsequently the local gas temperatures have been obtained. A comparison of the temperatures that were found with results from filtered Rayleigh experiments showed good agreement, indicating the success of what are to the best of our knowledge the first one-dimensional single-shot Raman measurements in a sooting hydrocarbon flame.     

Diode-Laser Wavelength-Modulation Absorption Spectroscopy for Quantitative in situ Measurements of Temperature and OH Radical Concentration in Combustion Gases

The in situ quantitative profiles of temperature and OH radical concentration in a postflame region of methane-air premixed counterflow flames were measured by wavelength modulation spectroscopy with a 1.5-mum external cavity diode laser. The second harmonic (2f) signal was generated from absorption by overtone vibrational-rotational transitions of OH: the ?(3/2) (v?, v?) = (2, 0) P11.5e (nu(0) = 6421.35 cm(-1)) or the ?(3/2) (v?, v?) = (3, 1) P5.5f (nu(0) = 6434.61 cm(-1)) transitions. The absorption occurred in the postflame region between methane-air premixed twin flames stabilized in a two-dimensional laminar counterflow burner (Tsuji burner) with a 60-mm line-of-sight path length. The temperature and OH concentration profiles at an equivalence ratio of phi = 0.85 were determined by least-squares fitting of theoretical 2f line shapes to the experimental counterparts and by calculation of the ratio of the line intensities of the two different OH transitions (two-line thermometry). The measured temperature and OH concentration profiles were cross checked by Rayleigh scattering thermometry, thermocouple measurements, and two-dimensional numerical prediction of premixed combustion by use of a detailed chemical kinetic mechanism. The measurements and the prediction showed reasonable agreement.     

Spline collocation in the flow of non-Newtonian fluids

Natural convection flow of a non-Newtonian fluid between two vertical infinite parallel flat plates forms the case study of the present work. Velocity profiles for the Prandtl–Eyring and Powell–Eyring fluid models are obtained through the method of spline collocation. The applicability and reliability of the techniques employed here are discussed in detail with a suggested error estimate and analysis. Accuracy in the successive iterations in the results is of the fourth order. To maintain this accuracy the help of a computer is not required for carrying out the calculation of velocity profiles. Thus the simplicity of the spline collocation technique is demonstrated in its application to flow problems.     

On the Modeling of Flow in Packed Bed Systems

Modeling of flow and its impact on transport phenomena in packed bed systems is discussed. A detailed flow model based on an improved Brinkman equation has been derived and its solution is presented. This model incorporates a representative voidage function that enabled the generation of velocity profiles that closely followed the voidage profile and highlighted the importance of the wall zone. Two approximate flow models from the literature have been used to obtain velocity profiles for the purpose of comparison with the model derived herein. Significant differences were observed in the location and magnitude of velocity maxima predicted by the various models employed in this work. The impact of such findings on transport phenomena is discussed. A method to obtain a wall zone velocity is suggested to facilitate estimation of transport parameters near the wall.     

Crank-angle-resolved laser-induced fluorescence imaging of NO in a spark-ignition engine at 248 nm and correlations to flame front propagation and pressure release

Inside the combustion chamber of a spark-ignition engine, NO fluorescence is excited with a narrow-band tunable KrF excimer laser. The fluorescence light is detected by an intensified CCD camera that yields images of the NO distributions. Rotational-vibrational transitions of NO are excited by the A(2)Σ+ ? X(2)Π (0, 2) band system around 248 nm. Single laser shot planar NO distributions are obtained with good signal-to-noise ratio at all crank angles and allow us to locate areas of NO formation during combustion. The pressure within the combustion chamber is measured simultaneously with the NO distributions, which allows the evaluation of correlations between indicated work and NO formation. The crank-angle-resolved sequences of two-dimensional NO distributions and averaged pressure traces are presented for different engine-operating conditions. In addition, laser-induced predissociation fluorescence of OH excited by the same laser source is measured in order to visualize the corresponding flame front propagation and to compare the time of formation of NO relative to that of OH.     

On the Modeling of Flow in Packed Bed Systems

Modeling of flow and its impact on transport phenomena in packed bed systems is discussed. A detailed flow model based on an improved Brinkman equation has been derived and its solution is presented. This model incorporates a representative voidage function that enabled the generation of velocity profiles that closely followed the voidage profile and highlighted the importance of the wall zone. Two approximate flow models from the literature have been used to obtain velocity profiles for the purpose of comparison with the model derived herein. Significant differences were observed in the location and magnitude of velocity maxima predicted by the various models employed in this work. The impact of such findings on transport phenomena is discussed. A method to obtain a wall zone velocity is suggested to facilitate estimation of transport parameters near the wall.     

Slow parallel flows of a water-granule mixture under gravity,part II: Examples of free surface and channel flows

Summary Using the continuum equations for an isothermal flow of water-granule mixture, proposed in Part I [6], we examine two classes of parallel gravity flows with low velocity. The first class is distinguished by a free surface, as may occur in a mud slide or river bed flows. The case of a single layer of saturated mixture driven by gravity is first studied. The effect of a layer of flowing water on top is then investigated. Velocity profiles and granular discharges are plotted. In the second class the top is bounded by a rigid wall along which there is no slipping. When the entire channel is filled with the mixture the velocity profile is found to contain a plug flow region which is asymmetric due to gravity. A layer of clear water flowing over the mixture has some lubricating effect which increases the granular discharge.With 9 Figures     

TIP4P potential for lid-driven cavity flow

Summary The TIP4P potential is used to predict the velocity profiles in the 3-D (about 100,000 molecules) liquid water lid-driven cavity flow. The vortices in the cavity are generated with the upper side wall moving with a constant speed and investigated by the leap-frog method in the field of molecular dynamics. Two kinds of problems are investigated in this paper to demonstrate the feature of the velocity profiles and traced the particle in the system, one is the cavity flow problem with square cavity and the other is with V-shape cavity. The realistic parameters of the water molecule are adopted in this research.In a very short time, from the velocity profiles it is evident that the vortices are driven by the moving top plate in all cases. And the turbulence-like phenomena are observed in the small triangular cavity when the calculating time is long enough. In addition, the vortex-like profiles in the triangular cavity are stronger and more obvious than the ones in the rectangular cavity. Therefore, the strength of vortex would be affected by the variation of the geometry. It emerges from that the dynamic transport properties like the thermal conductivity, diffusion coefficient and shear stress etc. would be varied by the variation of the geometry. Due to the application of results, the predicted phenomena can be applied on the nano-channel.     

Semi-similar solution of an unsteady compressible three-dimensional stagnation point boundary layer flow with massive blowing

A semi-similar solution of an unsteady laminar compressible three-dimensional stagnation point boundary layer flow with massive blowing has been obtained when the free stream velocity varies arbitrarily with time. The resulting partial differential equations governing the flow have been solved numerically using an implicit finite-difference scheme with a quasi-linearization technique in the nodal point region and an implicit finite-difference scheme with a parametric differentiation technique in the saddle point region. The results have been obtained for two particular unsteady free stream velocity distributions: (i) an accelerating stream and (ii) a fluctuating stream. Results show that the skin-friction and heat-transfer parameters respond significantly to the time dependent arbitrary free stream velocity. Velocity and enthalpy profiles approach their free stream values faster as time increases. There is a reverse flow in the $\text{y-}\text{wise}$ velocity profile, and overshoot in the $\text{x-}\text{wise}$ velocity and enthalpy profiles in the saddle point region, which increase as injection and wall temperature increase. Location of the dividing streamline increases as injection increases, but as the wall temperature and time increase, it decreases.     

Simultaneous velocity and temperature measurements in gaseous flowfields using the vibrationally excited nitric oxide monitoring technique: a comprehensive study

The performance of the vibrationally excited nitric oxide monitoring (VENOM) technique for simultaneous velocity and temperature measurements in gaseous flowfields is presented. Two different schemes were investigated, employing different methods to "write" a transient NO grid in the flow using the 355 nm photolysis of NO(2), which was subsequently probed by planar laser induced fluorescence imaging to extract velocity maps. We find that only one scheme provides full-frame temperature maps. The most accurate velocity measurement was attained by writing an NO pattern in the flow using a microlens array and then comparing the line displacement with respect to a reference image. The demonstrated uncertainty of this approach was 1.0%, corresponding to 7 m/s in a 705 m/s uniform flow. We found that the uncertainty associated with the instantaneous temperature measurements using the NO two-line thermometry technique was largely determined by the shot-to-shot power fluctuations of the probe lasers and, for the flows employed, were determined to range from 6% to 7% of the mean freestream temperature. Finally, simultaneous and local velocity/temperature measurements were performed in the wake of a cylinder in a uniform Mach 4.6 flowfield. The mean and fluctuation velocity and temperature maps were computed from 5000 single-shot measurements. The wake temperature and velocity fluctuations, with respect to the freestream values, were 15% to 30% and 5% to 20%, respectively. The spatial distributions agree with the results of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. Our results suggest that the VENOM technique holds promise for interrogating high-speed unsteady flowfields.     

The Effect of Laser Annealing on Laser-induced Damage Threshold

Abstract

A significant enhancement of the single-shot laser-induced damage threshold of CaF₂ and fused silica and a moderate enhancement for GaAs and Al has been observed as the result of laser annealing using an excimer laser operating at 248 nm. This phenomenon is primarily attributed to a reduction of the residual surface roughness of the samples.     

Phase-locked two-line OH planar laser-induced fluorescence thermometry in a pulsating gas turbine model combustor at atmospheric pressure

Two-line OH planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) thermometry was applied to a swirling CH4/air flame in a gas turbine (GT) model combustor at atmospheric pressure, which exhibited self-excited combustion instability. The potential and limitations of the method are discussed with respect to applications in GT-like flames. A major drawback of using OH as a temperature indicator is that no temperature information can be obtained from regions where OH radicals are missing or present in insufficient concentration. The resulting bias in the average temperature is addressed and quantified for one operating condition by a comparison with results from laser Raman measurements applied in the same flame. Care was taken to minimize saturation effects by decreasing the spectral laser power density to a minimum while keeping an acceptable spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio. In order to correct for the influence of laser light attenuation, absorption measurements were performed on a single-shot basis and a correction procedure was applied. The accuracy was determined to 4%-7% depending on the location within the flame and on the temperature level. A GT model combustor with an optical combustion chamber is described, and phase-locked 2D temperature distributions from a pulsating flame are presented. The temperature variations during an oscillation cycle are specified, and the general flame behavior is described. Our main goals are the evaluation of the OH PLIF thermometry and the characterization of a pulsating GT-like flame.     

基于激光诊断的分子标记示踪测速技术研究进展

随着飞行器速度的不断提升,高超声速气流流动理论、高超声速燃烧流场分析、飞行器空气动力学特性等研究的重要性日益凸显。目前常规的速度测量方法在面对高超声速复杂流场环境时受到的限制越来越明显,需要研究新的技术以满足流场内精确速度测量需求。分子标记示踪测速技术因其非侵入、无跟随性限制等优势正在成为研究热点。本文阐述了纳秒激光分子标记示踪测速技术、飞秒激光分子标记示踪测速技术的基本原理、主要参数和工作特点,分析了这些技术在测量中所面对的挑战,并对其在科学及工程领域中的应用前景展开了讨论,为推动高超声速复杂流场环境速度测量技术发展提供借鉴。     

Single-shot generation of a sonogram by time gating of a spectrally decomposed ultrashort laser pulse

An experimental technique for single-shot generation of the sonogram of an ultrashort laser pulse is demonstrated. The method is based on the time gating of a spectrally decomposed test signal, transferring its spectral phase into a spatial phase, and the spatial filtering of the signal to produce a sonogram. The technique is evaluated experimentally, producing sonograms for linearly and nonlinearly chirped femtosecond laser pulses. The single-shot technique permits reconstruction of ultrashort pulse complex amplitude profiles and is useful for showing the signal in real time.     

Simultaneous Two-Dimensional Flow Velocity and Gas Temperature Measurements by use of a Combined Particle Image Velocimetry and Filtered Rayleigh Scattering Technique

For the first time, to the best of our knowledge, two-dimensional instantaneous measurements of the flow velocity and the gas temperature have been performed in a turbulent flame with simultaneous use of particle image velocimetry and planar filtered Rayleigh scattering. These single-shot measurements provide simultaneous information on the local flame structure (curvature and temperature gradients) and on the local flow conditions (vortices, flow divergences, and strain rates). The applicability of the technique is demonstrated in a turbulent lean CH(4)-air V flame.