The modeling and simulation of the Beer–Lambert law is developed and presented for laser absorption along an arbitrary, straight optical path in which conditions along the optical path are nonhomogeneous due to a reacting flow environment. This capability is demonstrated using a low-speed reacting flow example with heterogeneous carbon surface chemistry. Motivated by existing experimental work, the effects of variations in laser angle, offset from the reacting sample, catalycity parameters, and pressure are investigated. It is shown that variations in parameters of the catalycity model induce the greatest change in laser absorption. From these results, it is concluded that the use of modeling and simulation together with experimentally obtained laser absorption data to drive the solution of inverse problems for surface catalycity is feasible.


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    Title :

    Computational Modeling of Laser Absorption in Reacting Flows


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    Publication date :

    2019-03-06


    Size :

    11 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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