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X-Ray And Laser Investigation Of High Pressure Sprays, Wilbert C. Slowman, Lane E. Shultz, Terence R. Meyer

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium

The diagnostics of multiphase flows is important to understand the correlation of parameters such as nozzle geometry, flow velocity, liquid breakup characteristics, atomization, and mass distribution. Investigation of each of these parameters can lead to various improvements on design and optimization, for example, of combustion in gas turbines and rocket engines. For this project, the X-ray and optical diagnostics of multiphase flows in propulsion is investigated for high pressures. Two x-ray tube sources are used to illuminate the spray, and the images are captured on phosphor plates coupled to high-speed cameras. Reconstruction of the mass distribution is accomplished using computer …