A SURVEY OF PLASMA DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES.

Abstract

The status of instrumentation and diagnostic techniques for use with high-temperature plasmas and especially with gases heated in arc-jet heaters are reviewed as of about the middle of 1963. The performance range of arc-jet heaters is discussed to aid in delineating the required measurement regimes. Diagnostic techniques for the following plasma quantities of interest are discussed: density, temperature dissociation, ionization and electron density, pressure, enthalpy, and velocity. Attempts are made in many cases to delineate the ranges of validity of the techniques discussed. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0601659

Entities

People

  • C. A. Davies

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Charged Particles
  • Dissociation
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Elementary Fermions
  • Elementary Particles
  • Enthalpy
  • Fermions
  • High Temperature
  • Instrumentation
  • Ionization
  • Leptons
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Physical Properties
  • Subatomic Particles

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics