Abstract

Laser diagnostics and radiative heat transfer investigations on flame soot particulates appears to be seriously influenced by the a priori uncertainties connected to the lack of knowledge about the physical and chemical properties of the media under test. Both the uncertainty about soot refractive index [1] and [2],[3] morphology are demonstrated to substantially influence the effectiveness of optical in-situ scattering / absorption measurements.

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