@article {Stufflebeam:1989-02-01T00:00:00:0003-7028:274, author
= "Stufflebeam, John H.", title = "Exciplex Fluorescence
Thermometry of Liquid Fuel", journal = "Applied Spectroscopy",
volume = "43", number = "2", year = "1989-02-01T00:00:00",
abstract = "An experimental program is described that
investigates the application of exciplex fluorescence to the
internal thermometry of flowing liquid decane in the temperature
range 24-91°C. Decane is doped with pyrene and excited by laser
radiation at 354.7 nm. A library of temperature-dependent,
exciplex fluorescence spectra is obtained from a static, iso-
thermal solution, and the spectral features are analyzed to
produce a temperature-prediction algorithm. The solution then
flows through a temperature gradient region, and the laser-
induced fluorescence spectra that are recorded are used to
determine the local temperature in the solution by application
of the algorithm. Excellent agreement between the predicted
temperatures and those measured by thermocouples in co