Applications and Potentials of Optical Measurement Techniques for the Investigation of Transient Combustion Phenomena

The present work reports on the application of optical measurement-techniques to combustion-processes as they are investigated at the “Lehrstuhl A fur Thermodynamik ” of the “Technische Universitat Munchen”. The outstanding characteristics of the optical measurementtechniques in combustion research are described, and their potentials for the determination of important process-variables are explained with applications of various kinds, which cover the range from explosions up to transient supersonic combustion.