TY - JOUR
T1 - Spectroscopic analysis of nonequilibrium excited state chemistry in a NASA arc jet
AU - Winter, Michael W.
AU - Srinivasan, Cidambi
AU - Charnigo, Richard
AU - Prabhu, Dinesh K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2016 by Daniil Andrienko.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - To support the determination of total specific enthalpy of the plasma flow of the 60 MW Interaction Heating Facility at NASA Ames Research Center, spectroscopic measurements of nonequilibrium emission were performed in the freestream. In the visible to near-infrared wavelength region, the most prominent emission was from molecular N2, and in the ultraviolet region, the spectra were dominated by emission from molecular NO. The only atomic lines observed were those of copper (an erosion product of the electrodes). The bands of the First Positive System of N2 (B → A) differed significantly from spectra computed assuming only thermal excitation, suggesting overpopulation of the high vibrational states of the B state of N2. Populations of these high vibrational levels (peaking at vupper 13) of the N2 B state were determined by scaling spectra simulated for each upper vibrational state separately. The overpopulation of the high vibrational levels is assigned to inverse predissociation of neutral atoms into the N2 B state at vupper > 10 via level-crossing processes with the N2 A 0 5 Σg state. The vupper 12 and 13 emission has been used to determine N atom densities, which agree very well between the different experiment campaigns and with the computational-fluid-dynamics simulation of these flows.
AB - To support the determination of total specific enthalpy of the plasma flow of the 60 MW Interaction Heating Facility at NASA Ames Research Center, spectroscopic measurements of nonequilibrium emission were performed in the freestream. In the visible to near-infrared wavelength region, the most prominent emission was from molecular N2, and in the ultraviolet region, the spectra were dominated by emission from molecular NO. The only atomic lines observed were those of copper (an erosion product of the electrodes). The bands of the First Positive System of N2 (B → A) differed significantly from spectra computed assuming only thermal excitation, suggesting overpopulation of the high vibrational states of the B state of N2. Populations of these high vibrational levels (peaking at vupper 13) of the N2 B state were determined by scaling spectra simulated for each upper vibrational state separately. The overpopulation of the high vibrational levels is assigned to inverse predissociation of neutral atoms into the N2 B state at vupper > 10 via level-crossing processes with the N2 A 0 5 Σg state. The vupper 12 and 13 emission has been used to determine N atom densities, which agree very well between the different experiment campaigns and with the computational-fluid-dynamics simulation of these flows.
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U2 - 10.2514/1.T5380
DO - 10.2514/1.T5380
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85055420155
SN - 0887-8722
VL - 32
SP - 1088
EP - 1098
JO - Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer
JF - Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer
IS - 4
ER -