Developments in laser techniques and applications to fluid mechanics : proceedings of the 7th international symposium, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-14 July, 1994

I Applications to Fluid Mechanics.- Low Reynolds Number Effects on the Inner Region of a Turbulent Boundary Layer.- Circular Couette Flow and Taylor Vortices in Shear-Thinning Liquids.- LDV Measurements of Confined Vortex Breakdown Generated by a Rotating Cone.- LDV-Measurements on Wide Gap Instabilities in Spherical Couette Flow.- Axial and Tangential Velocity Components at the Exhaust End of a Highly Complex Cyclonic Flow.- Mean Flow and Turbulence Measurements in a Rotating Passage Using a Stationary Fibre Optic LDA Probe.- Three-Dimensional Laser-Doppler Measurements in a Curved Flume.- Application of Laser Induced Fluorescence For Measuring the Thickness of Evaporating Gasoline Liquid Films.- Manifold Injection and the Origin of Droplets at the Exit of an Inlet Valve.- Phase-Doppler Anemometry (PDA) a New Tool for Monitoring Thermal Spraying.- II Applications to Combustion.- Characteristics of Counter-Gradient Heat Transfer in a Non-Premixed Swirling Flame.- Flame Structure Characterization Based on Rayleigh Thermometry and Two-Point Laser-Doppler Measurements.- Simultaneous Measurements of Temperature and OH Concentration Fields in Turbulent Combustion Using One Single Laser Source and One Single CCD Camera.- Structure of Spark-Ignited Spherical Flames Propagating in a Droplet Cloud.- III Instrumentation for Velocity and Size Measurements.- A Phase Screen Approach to Non-Particle Laser Anemometry.- Gaussian Beam Errors in Phase-Doppler Anemometry and Their Elimination.- Quantization of Doppler Signals: How many Bits are Needed?.- Direction Sensitive LDA Using a Single High-Frequency Pulsed Laser Diode and a Single Photodetector Without Frequency Shifting.- Measurements of Bubbles by Phase Doppler Technique and Trajectory Ambiguity.- Examination of the Rainbow Position of Optically Levitated Droplets for the Determination of Evaporation Rates of Droplets.- A New Technique to Measure Refractive Index With Phase Doppler Anemometry.- Simultaneous Determination of Temperature and Size of Droplets from the Rainbow Using Airy Theory.- A Rigorous Procedure for Design and Response Determination of Phase Doppler Systems.- Measurements of Size and Velocity of Arbitrarily Shaped Particles by LDA Based Shadow Image Technique.- IV Instrumentation for Whole-Field Velocity.- Interrogation and Validation of Three-Dimensional Vector Fields.- High-Speed 3-D Scanning Particle Image (3-D SPIV) Velocimetry Technique.- Multiple Light Sheet Particle Holography For Three-Dimensional Flow Velocimetry.- A Compact and Simple all Optical Evaluation Method for PIV Recordings.- A New Paradigm for Particle Tracking Velocimetry, Based on Graph-Theory and Pulsed Neural Network.- Precision Whole-Field Velocity Measurements With Frequency-Scanned Filtered Rayleigh Scattering.- Author Index.