Experimental study of non-equilibrium ionization in a supersonic CO flow
Abstract
Experimental results are presented on ionization processes in the vibrationally non-equilibrium flow of CO preliminarily heated by a shock wave and adiabatically cooled in the supersonic nozzle with a flow Mach number of M = 3.9 It is shown that for a wide range of flow stagnation temperatures, the value of the recorded semi-self-maintained current considerably exceeds the one due to thermal gas ionization in the plenum chamber.
- Publication:
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Beitraege Plasmaphysik
- Pub Date:
- 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986BePl...26..179B
- Keywords:
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- Carbon Dioxide;
- Gas Ionization;
- Molecular Oscillations;
- Nonequilibrium Conditions;
- Shock Tubes;
- Supersonic Nozzles;
- Electrical Resistivity;
- Flow Velocity;
- Mach Number;
- Stagnation Temperature;
- Plasma Physics