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The convective heat transfer of a diesel flame impinging on a flat wall has been studied with a rapid compression machine. Heat flux at the wall as well as the temperature and movement of the flame was measured with varying the impinging distance and angle. The result shows that the local flame temperature increases in the radial direction from the stagnation point due to the progress of combustion, while the heat transfer coefficient decreases in the radial direction, and as a result the distribution of the heat flux on the impinging surface becomes almost uniform.

The formation and oxidation processes of soot particulates in a D. I. diesel engine were investigated under various operating conditions through the measurements of KL factor and flame temperature via the two-color method, whose reliability had been substantiated by a comparative measurement with the direct sampling method. The measured time histories of KL factor and flame temperature show that under all conditions studied soot is promptly formed just after the start of diffusion combustion phase and peaks at around the end of injection, then is oxidized rapidly, followed by the termination of oxidation when the flame temperature drops to 1800 K.