System for Imaging Turbulent Combustion Flows

Asystem of scientific instrumentation and data-processing equipment has been assembled for research and education in turbulence, mixing, and chemical reactions (especially combustion) in high-speed laminar and turbulent flows. The system is designed to enable study of temporally varying, three- dimensional structures in flow regimes that have been inaccessible to prior instrumentation systems, with emphasis on flow regimes relevant to the operation of ramjet and scramjet engines.