Combustion and Flame Dynamics Laboratory's main campus facilities are located in E8 Engineering Laboratory in the Norman Campus. Our lab provides instrumentation for both conventional and advanced laser based combustion diagnostic systems. Five specially designed steel combustion chambers with optical access are available for this purpose. The state-of-the art instrumentation includes:

• High Energy Nd:Yag laser pumped Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO) with Frequency Doubler Option (FDO)
• Two-Component Laser Doppler Velocimetry
• Phase Doppler Particle Analyzer (PDPA)
• Schlieren Imaging Facility
• Gas Chromatographs
• Chemilumenesance and Non-Dispersive Infrared Gas Analyzers
• Radiometers
• TLV Sniffer Kit for Vapor Concentration Measurements
• Temperature and Flow measurement Devices
• LABVIEW based Computerized Data Acquisition and Image Processing Systems

The combustion laboratory is thus equipped with the capability to measure the performance, efficiency, heat transfer, and pollutants emission characteristics of flames and combustion systems.

Laser System:

The laser diagnostic system has a tunable range from 1046nm to deep UV (190nm). An ICCD (Intensified Charged Coupled Device) camera with high-speed camera controller and gate pulse generator is now being used for PLIF (Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence) measurements of radical concentrations in the flames. Also, a 1/4m computer controlled monochromator with PMT and a gated detection system (Boxcar Integrator) is available for other spectroscopic measurements.

Computational Facilities:

Our laboratory is equipped with advanced computational fluid dynamics softwares such as FLUENT and various chemical kinetics codes such as CHEMKIN running on personal computers with Windows NT/XP platforms. A variety of steady, and unsteady combustion problems in any arbitrary configurations can be investigated using our facilities.