Determination of the time-resolved probabilities of heterogeneous recombination of atoms in shock tube experiments
Abstract
A technique is devised and implemented experimentally for measuring time-resolved probabilities of heterogeneous surface recombination of atoms on a plate with a sharp leading edge exposed to a pulsing supersonic flow of gas dissociated by an incident shock wave propagating in a shock tube. A method to calculate heat transfer on the plate surface for the conditions pertaining to the experiment is suggested. The design of a heat flux gauge and the technology of its fabrication are developed.
- Publication:
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International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
- Pub Date:
- January 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986IJHMT..29....1B
- Keywords:
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- Atomic Recombination;
- Heat Transfer;
- Shock Tubes;
- Supersonic Flow;
- Catalytic Activity;
- Flat Plates;
- Gas Flow;
- Heat Flux;
- Oxide Films;
- Oxygen Atoms;
- Probability Theory;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer