Investigation of DF Kinetics in the Presence of BF3.

Abstract

Laser modeling calculations have been performed for a helium-free DF laser operating on solid-grain reactants. The laser calculations include deactivation kinetics for BF3 that are based on measurements at 295 K. Reasonable estimates have been made for the scaling of the deactivation rates to higher vibrational levels and for the temperature dependence. The calculations show that the BF3 degrades the laser performance about 4% because of the deactivation kinetics. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 02, 1981
Accession Number
ADA099189

Entities

People

  • J. F. Bott
  • M. Epstein

Organizations

  • The Aerospace Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adiabatic Flames
  • Air Force
  • Chemical Lasers
  • Coefficients
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Products
  • Combustors
  • Corporations
  • Deuterium Fluoride Lasers
  • Flow
  • Gas Flow
  • Heat Loss
  • Kinetics
  • Laser Resonators
  • Lasers
  • Secondary Flow
  • Static Pressure

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers