- Author
- Bard, S. | Pagni, P. J.
- Title
- Comparison of Laser-Induced Fluorescene and Scattering in Pool-Fire Diffusion Flames.
- Coporate
- Factory Mutual Research Corp., Norwood, MA
- Journal
- Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Vol. 25, No. 5, 453-461, May 1981
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Keywords
- pool fires | diffusion flames | soot | vapor phases | fluorescence | polymethyl methacrylate | radicals
- Identifiers
- PMMA; gas phases
- Abstract
- Measurements of fluorescence and scattering in small-scale, 0 (10 cm diameter), buoyant diffusion flames indicate that absorption of visible laser radiation by aseous molecules or radicals is negligible compared to absorption and scattering by carbon particulates.