1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781401903321

Titolo

Combustion diagnostics by nonintrusive methods / / editors, T.D. McCay, J.A. Roux

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, , 1984

ISBN

1-60086-565-8

1-60086-346-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; ; v. 92

Altri autori (Persone)

McCayT. D

RouxJ. A

Disciplina

629.1 s

621.402/3

Soggetti

Combustion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Technical papers selected from the AIAA 21st Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 1983, and the AIAA 18th Thermophysics Conference, June 1983, and subsequently revised for this volume."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter I. CARS""; ""CARS Diagnostics of High Pressure and Temperature Gases""; ""CARS Thermometry and N2 Number-Density Measurments in a Turbulent Diffusion Flame""; ""Comparison of CARS Combustion Temperatures with Standard Techniques""; ""Electronically Resonant CARS Detection of OH""; ""Simultaneous CARS and Luminosity Measurements in a Bluff-Body Combustion""; ""Chapter II. Laser-Induced Fluorescence.""; ""Nonintrusive Pressure Measurements with Laser-Induced Iodine Fluorescence""

""Laser-Induced Schlieren Effect in Sodium-Nitrogen Mixtures"" ""Use of Laser-Induced Fluorescence for Fundamental Gas-Phase Kinetic Measurements""; ""Chapter III. Particle Diagnostics""; ""Nonintrusive Laser-Based Particle Diagnostics - Invited Review""; ""Interpretation of Optical Measurements of Soot in Flames""; ""In Situ Measurement of the Complex Refractive Index of Combustion Generated Particulates""; ""Chapter IV. Combustion Diagnostics Applications""; ""Temperature and Concentration Measurements in an Internal Combustion Engine Using Laser Raman Spectroscopy""



""Rayleigh Thermometry with Low-Power Laser Sources"" ""Laser Tomography for Simultaneous Concentration and Temperature Measurement in Reacting Flows""; ""Flow Measurement in a Model Combustion Chamber""; ""Author Index""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778071903321

Autore

Minnich Richard A

Titolo

California's fading wildflowers [[electronic resource] ] : lost legacy and biological invasions / / Richard A. Minnich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008

ISBN

1-282-35937-1

9786612359378

0-520-93433-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Disciplina

582.1309794

Soggetti

Biological invasions - California

Plant invasions - California

Wild flowers - California

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-336) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The golden state -- Pre-Hispanic herbaceous vegetation -- Invasion of Franciscan annuals, grazing and California pasture in the nineteenth century -- A century for bromes and the fading of California wildflowers -- Lessons from the Rose Parade -- App.1. Location of Franciscan campsites, Franciscan place names, and modern place names -- App.2. Spanish plant names for California vegetation -- App.3. Selected earliest botanical collections of exotic annual species in California -- App.4. References to wildflowers in the Los Angeles Times, The Desert magazine, and the Riverside Press Enterprise.

Sommario/riassunto

Early Spanish explorers in the late eighteenth century found springtime California covered with spectacular carpets of wildflowers from San Francisco to San Diego. Yet today, invading plant species have devastated this nearly forgotten botanical heritage. In this lively, vividly detailed work, Richard A. Minnich synthesizes a unique and wide-



ranging array of sources-from the historic accounts of those early explorers to the writings of early American botanists in the nineteenth century, newspaper accounts in the twentieth century, and modern ecological theory-to give the most comprehensive historical analysis available of the dramatic transformation of California's wildflower prairies. At the same time, his groundbreaking book challenges much current thinking on the subject, critically evaluating the hypothesis that perennial bunchgrasses were once a dominant feature of California's landscape and instead arguing that wildflowers filled this role. As he examines the changes in the state's landscape over the past three centuries, Minnich brings new perspectives to topics including restoration ecology, conservation, and fire management in a book that will change our of view of native California.