Abstract

New requirements to improve the efficiency and performance of combustion systems, reduce pollution emissions, and enable utilization of fuels with broad specifications have necessitated development of a number of sophisticated optical diagnostic techniques, which can provide measurements with high spatial and temporal resolution. However, in general, these techniques provide single-point measurements with low repetition rates. In addition, they require statistical methods to interpret data obtained in fluctuating fields and are difficult to relate directly to the observed physical phenomena.

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