Quantitative time-averaged gas and liquid distributions using x-ray fluorescence and radiography in atomizing sprays

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2015-05-01
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Radke, Christopher
McManamen, J. Patrick
Kastengren, Alan
Halls, Benjamin
Meyer, Terrence
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A method for quantitative measurements of gas and liquid distributions is demonstrated using simultaneous x-ray fluorescence and radiography of both phases in an atomizing coaxial spray. Synchrotron radiation at 10.1 keV from the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory is used for x-ray fluorescence of argon gas and two tracer elements seeded into the liquid stream. Simultaneous time-resolved x-ray radiography combined with timeaveraged dual-tracer fluorescence measurements enabled corrections for reabsorption of x-ray fluorescence photons for accurate, line-of-sight averaged measurements of the distribution of the gas and liquid phases originating from the atomizing nozzle.

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This article is from Optics Letters 40 (2015): 2029, doi: 10.1364/OL.40.002029. Posted with permission.

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