Instrumentation for Combustion and Flow in Engines

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Instrumentation For Combustion and Flow in Gas Turbine Combustors

   1. Velocity and Scalar Measurements in Model and Real Gas Torbine Combustors

      • M. V. Heitor

      Pages 1-44

   2. Combustion Oscillations in Ducts

      • S. Sivasegaram, J. H. Whitelaw

      Pages 45-54

   3. Effect of Mean and Variable Time Constant on Compensated Thermocouple Measurements

      • K. C. Hopkins, J. C. Larue, G. S. Samuelsen

      Pages 55-68

   4. Laser Diagnostics for Gas Turbine Thermometry and Species Measurements

      • Alan C. Eckbreth

      Pages 69-106

   5. Raman Processes and their Application

      • Alfred Leipertz

      Pages 107-122

   6. Quantitative Two- and Three-Dimensional Measurement Techniques

      • Alfred Leipertz

      Pages 123-140

   7. Quantitative Two-Dimensional Imaging of CO in Combustion Gases Using LIF

      • Juergen Haumann, Jerry M. Seitzman, Ronald K. Hanson

      Pages 141-150

   8. Laser Velocimetry for Combustion

      • D. F. G. Durão, J. M. C. Mendes-Lopes

      Pages 151-177

   9. Some Problems and Solutions in the Application of Laser Velocimetry to Continuous Combustion

      • J. Labbe, A. Jerot

      Pages 179-190

   10. The Simultaneous Measurement of Velocity and Scalar Properties

       • M. V. Heitor

       Pages 191-214

   11. Future Test Rigs

       • A. Cadiou

       Pages 215-226

3. Instrumentation for Combustion and Flow in Internal-Combustion Engines

   1. Laser Instrumentation for Production Engines

      • C. F. Old

      Pages 227-233

   2. Application of Laser Anemometry and Rayleigh Scattering to Engine Flows

      • C. Arcoumanis

      Pages 235-253

   3. Influence of Combustion on Laser Doppler Velocimeter Signal Quality in a Spark Ignition Engine

      • P. O. Witze, T. A. Baritaud

      Pages 255-266

   4. Refractive Index Matching for IDV Measurements Near Walls and in Complex Geometries

      • J. C. F. Pereira

      Pages 267-284

   5. Problems and Solutions for Sprays in Piston Engines

      • C. F. Old

      Pages 285-293

   6. Dispersed Two-Phase Flows, its Experimental Investigation and Numerical Prediction

      • F. Durst, T. Börner

      Pages 295-339

   7. Temperature Measurements by Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering in Internal Combustion Engines

      • Robert P. Lucht

      Pages 341-353

   8. S. I. Engine Ion Probe Diagnostics

      • C. G. W. Sheppard, E-S. A. A. Ibrahim

      Pages 355-364

Much has been said and written about the abilities of modern instrumentation to help solve problems of combustion in engines. In the main, however, the design and fabr ication of combustion chambers continues to be based on extrapolation of exper ience gained from use and rig tests, with little input from advanced techniques such as those based on optical diagnotics. At the same time, it has become increasingly difficult to design better combustion chambers without knowledge of the relevant flow processes. Thus, the future must involve improved understanding which, in turn, will require detailed measurements of velocity, temperature and concentration. The need to narrow the gap between current industrial practice and the acquisition and implementation of improved techniques motivated the organization of the Advanced Study Institute upon which this volume is based. This Institute on Instrumentation for Combustion and Flow in Engines was arranged to display the needs of industry and the possibilities made available by modern instrumentation and, at the same time, to make clear the relative advantages of optical and probe techniques. Held at Vimeiro during the period from 13 to 26 September, 1987, the Institute was attended by 120 participants and 16 invited lecturers.

• flow
• laser
• turbulent flow
• two-phase flow

• Mechanical Engineering Department, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal

  D. F. G. Durão

• Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England

  J. H. Whitelaw

• Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, USA

  P. O. Witze

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