Transport of Air Plasma.

Abstract

Several optical diagnostic techniques were developed to interrogate important plasma parameters including temperatures and species concentrations. In particular, a new technique of electron number density measurements based on measurements of the nonequilibrium population of the predissociative C state of NO was devised. It was found that the three-body NO recombination rate proposed by Dunn and Kang appears to be too slow by a factor ^ 100, and that the rate proposed by Gupta et al. or Park is also too slow, by about a factor ^ 10. This result has significant implications for the development of techniques to create and maintain elevated electron number densities in air plasmas.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA330595

Entities

People

  • Charles H. Kruger

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Barometric Pressure
  • Chemistry
  • Electron Energy
  • Electrons
  • Emission Spectra
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Free Electrons
  • Ground State
  • Kinetics
  • Line Of Sight
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Radiation
  • Recombination Reactions
  • Simulations
  • Spectra

Readers

  • Gulf War Illness and Chronic Multisymptom Illness in Veterans.
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Statistical inference.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics