Establishing the Basis for Validated Predictions of Highly Non-Equilibrium Flows. (With 9 Attachments)
Abstract
A unique iodine vapor hypersonic flow facility for the study of nonequilibrium reacting flows has been developed and used in initial experiments. An important new computationally efficient theoretical approach to describing the energy exchange of iodine and other molecules during collisions has been formulated and applied to iodine. The transport properties of dissociating diatomic molecules have been studied and a potentially very significant phenomena appearing when a gas is partially dissociated has been identified. A Ph.D. thesis has been completed on experiments with the iodine flow facility. Several journal articles and meeting papers on both the experimental and theoretical work have been prepared. A second Ph.D. thesis is nearly complete on the design of parallel flow nozzles for nonequilibrium dissociating, vibrationally active iodine flows. Code validation, Hypersonic, Non-equilibrium flows
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 14, 1993
- Accession Number
- ADA272918
Entities
People
- Dan Erwin
- E. P. Muntz
- Joseph Kunc
Organizations
- University of Southern California