This book studies the collision coalescence and deposition of nanoparticles in stagnation
flames. With the help of synthesis experiments in-situ laser diagnostics and molecular
dynamics simulations it investigates the growth of nanoparticles in flames and their
deposition in boundary layers at a macroscopic flow field scale as well as particle and
molecular scale issues such as the interaction force between particles how the collision rate
is enhanced by attractive forces and how the nano-scale coalescence process is influenced by
the high surface curvature - all of which are crucial to understanding nanoparticle transport
phenomena at high temperatures. The book also reports on a novel in-situ laser diagnostics
phenomenon called phase-selective laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and related applications
for tracing gas-to-particle transitions and measuring local particle volume fractions in
nano-aerosols.
