Rapid Concentration Measurements by Picosecond Time-Resolved Laser-InducedFluorescence

摘要

Quantitative measurements of scalars in combustion are crucial to ourunderstanding of flame structure and pollutant production. Progress has been made in quantitatively characterizing many laminar flames; however, the inherent fluctuations in turbulent flames significantly complicate such measurements. Picosecond time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence (PITLIF) is a developing technique which seeks to provide the first known means of obtaining quantitative minor-species concentrations in flames at rates sufficient for the study of turbulent fluctuations. This method was developed and applied to measurements of sodium and OH concentrations in laminar flames under previous AFOSR funding. The present report details the construction of a second generation PITLIF instrument. The primary goal of this work is to provide a continuous time series of quantitative concentrations from which frequency domain statistics such as the power spectral density (PSD) can be computed. Using the new laser system, fluorescence measurements of CH and OH time series were collected in a variety of methane and hydrogen flames including nonpremixed turbulent flames. These data have also been compared with available velocity and temperature measurements. The time series and resulting PSDs represent the first measurements of these statistics for minor-species concentrations.