Accession Number:
ADA330595
Title:
Transport of Air Plasma.
Descriptive Note:
Final technical rept. 15 Aug 93-31 Aug 97,
Corporate Author:
STANFORD UNIV CA HIGH TEMPERATURE GASDYNAMICS LAB
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1997-09-01
Pagination or Media Count:
27.0
Abstract:
Several optical diagnostic techniques were developed to interrogate important plasma parameters including temperatures and species concentrations. In particular, a new technique of electron number density measurements based on measurements of the nonequilibrium population of the predissociative C state of NO was devised. It was found that the three-body NO recombination rate proposed by Dunn and Kang appears to be too slow by a factor 100, and that the rate proposed by Gupta et al. or Park is also too slow, by about a factor 10. This result has significant implications for the development of techniques to create and maintain elevated electron number densities in air plasmas.
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Subject Categories:
- Physical Chemistry
- Plasma Physics and Magnetohydrodynamics