Spectroscopic Diagnostics for Supersonic Air Microwave Discharges
Abstract
Optical Emission Spectroscopy (OES) is an increasingly relevant technique in plasma diagnostics due to its non-invasive nature and simple application relative to other popular techniques. In this work, common OES techniques are combinedwith novel methods in an effort to provide comprehensive OES techniques for stationary and supersonic air microwave discharges. To this end, a detailed collisional-radiative model for strong atomic oxygen lines has been developed and used to identify the importance of mechanisms including cascade emission and metastable excitation. Using these results, a combined argon actinometry technique was developed which makes use of the two strong oxygen triplets (777 nm and 844 nm) as well as the common N2/N2 method in order to make simultaneous experimental estimates of gas temperature, dissociation fraction, electron temperature and electron density in a medium pressure synthetic airmicrowave discharge. Finally, a similar technique is proposed and tested in a supersonic flowing air microwave discharge which shows promise for rapid spatial imaging of electron temperature and ionization fraction in high Mach plasma flows.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 07, 2020
- Accession Number
- AD1124111
Entities
People
- James E. Caplinger
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology