Abstract

A four-dimensional (4D) mid-infrared laser absorption imaging technique has been developed and demonstrated for quantitative, time-resolved, volumetric measurements of temperature and species concentration in dynamic combustion flows. This technique employs a dual high-speed infrared camera setup to capture turnable radiation from a quantum cascade laser near 4.85 µm to resolve rovibrational absorption transitions of carbon monoxide at two orthogonal projection angles. The laser is modulated with a customized waveform to adaptively resolve two target transitions with an increased density of data samples in proximity to the transition peaks, therefore ensuring accurate and quantitative spectral interpretation while minimizing the required frame rate. A 3D masked Tikhonov regularized inversion was performed to reconstruct spectrally resolved absorbance at every grid point of each frame, which enables subsequent interpretation of local gas properties in time. These methods are applied to achieve quantitative 4D cinematography of temperature and carbon monoxide in a propagating C₂H₄/O₂ flame with a spatial pixel resolution of ∼70 µm and a temporal resolution of 2 kHz.

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