Accession Number:

AD0294868

Title:

IONIZATION IN HYPERSONIC WAKES. REVIEW OF MICROWAVE PROBE INSTRUMENTATION AND SUMMARY OF PRELIMINARY DATA

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

GM DEFENSE RESEARCH LABS SANTA BARBARA CA

Personal Author(s):

• PRIMICH, R.I.
• HAYAMI, R.A.

Report Date:

1962-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

1.0

Abstract:

An outline is given of the progress which was made in the development of the focused microwave probe as a plasma diagnostics tool, and in the application of it to the study of ionization in hypersonic wakes. A major part of the development was concerned with instrumentation, the theoretical analysis of the interaction of the probe field with a plasma, data reduction, and interpretation of the results in terms of magnitudes and spatial variations of electron density and collision frequency. Author

Descriptors:

• *HYPERSONIC FLOW
• DATA PROCESSING
• ELECTRONS
• GAS IONIZATION
• INSTRUMENTATION
• PLASMAS(PHYSICS)
• ELECTROMAGNETIC PROBES
• WAKE

Subject Categories:

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE