HF Vibrational Relaxation Measurements by the Combined Shock Tube-Laser Induced Fluorescence Technique.

Abstract

Vibrational relaxation measurements in HF have been obtained in at intermediate temperatures by combining the laser-induced fluorescence technique with shock compression hearing in a shock tube. Usually, shock tube measurements of vibrational relation are limited to high temperatures, above about 1300K in the case of HF. Laser-induced fluoresence measurements can be made in heated cells suitable for HF handling up to about 700 to 800K. The combination of the two techniques offers several advantages including large range of temperatures, no wall reactions, and no leaky cells at high temperature. This method was used to obtain HF vibrational relaxation data at 460 to 1030K. These data, together with shock tube data at high temperature (1350 to 3000K), are compared with theoretical predictions. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 19, 1972
Accession Number
AD0745953

Entities

People

  • Jerry F. Bott

Organizations

  • The Aerospace Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Compression
  • Fluorescence
  • High Temperature
  • Laser Induced Fluorescence
  • Lasers
  • Measurement
  • Shock Tubes
  • Tubes
  • Vibrational Relaxation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy