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APPLIED OPTICS
Volume 40, Issue 27, Pages 4894-4903Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.004894
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The in situ quantitative profiles of temperature and OH radical concentration in a postflame region of methane-air premixed counterflow flames were measured by wavelength modulation spectroscopy with a 1.5-mum external cavity diode laser. The second harmonic (2f) signal was generated from absorption by overtone vibrational-rotational transitions of OH: the Pi (3/2) (upsilon ',upsilon ) = (2, 0) P11.5c (nu (0) = 6421.35 cm(-1)) or the Pi (3/2) (upsilon ',upsilon ) = (3, 1) P5.5f (nu (0) = 6434.61 cm(-1)) transitions. The absorption occurred in the postflame region between methane-air premixed twin flames stabilized in a two-dimensional laminar counterflow burner (Tsuji burner) with a 60-mm line-of-sight path length. The temperature and OH concentration profiles at an equivalence ratio of phi = 0.85 were determined by least-squares fitting of theoretical 2f line shapes to the experimental counterparts and by calculation of the ratio of the line intensities of the two different OH transitions (two-line thermometry). The measured temperature and OH concentration profiles were cross checked by Rayleigh scattering thermometry, thermocouple measurements, and two-dimensional numerical prediction of premixed combustion by use of a detailed chemical kinetic mechanism. The measurements and the prediction showed reasonable agreement. (C) 2001 Optical Society of America.
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