Heating of molecular nitrogen in a pulsed self-maintaining discharge
Abstract
Results are presented on the anomalously fast heating of molecular nitrogen in a self-maintained discharge with UV preionization at a pressure of 10 kPa. A three-mirror laser interferometer has been used to derive the time dependence of the gas density over a wide range in energy deposition. Estimates are made of the nitrogen temperature increment and the proportion of the energy deposited in the discharge that is released as heat.
- Publication:
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Teplofizika Vysokikh Temperatur
- Pub Date:
- September 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983TepVT..21..224K
- Keywords:
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- Molecular Gases;
- Nitrogen Plasma;
- Plasma Heating;
- Plasma Jets;
- Gas Density;
- Gas Discharges;
- Laser Interferometry;
- Self Sustained Emission;
- Plasma Physics