An ethanol spray flame was characterized experimentally with laser-based imaging techniques. The data set was used to validate numerical simulation codes of spray combustion and good agreement to the experimental data was found. The experiments include spatially-resolved measurements of droplet sizes (
Mie/LIF-dropsizing and PDA), droplet velocity (
PIV and PDA), liquid phase temperature (2-color LIF temperature imaging with Rhodamine B) and gas-phase temperature (
multi-line NO-LIF temperature imaging). Data obtained close to the nozzle exit was used as initial conditions for numerical simulations. The data set will be published on this website to allow groups developing numerical simulation codes to evaluate their codes.