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Experimental study of recombining nitrogen plasmas: I. Vibronic population distributions and nonequilibrium molecular radiation

Abstract

We present optical emission spectroscopy measurements in recombining nitrogen plasma flows at atmospheric pressure. An inductively coupled plasma torch is used to create an equilibrium plasma, which is then forced to recombine by flowing through a water-cooled tube. For certain conditions, the plasma is forced out of chemical equilibrium. The emission of 2 (3), 2 (3) and 2 + (2 +) is studied to measure the nonequilibrium vibrational density distributions within these electronic states. These densities are found to be highly overpopulated in comparison with their corresponding equilibrium values, which is consistent with previous results in recombining flows. The measured densities are also compared with the predictions of a 2-temperature model. This 2-temperature model underpredicts the measured densities but is closer to the measured distributions than the equilibrium densities. The total measured radiation is approximately 100,000 times stronger than the corresponding equilibrium radiation. The 2-T model estimate of this radiation is much closer yet still underestimates by a factor of 10 the measured radiation. These data are intended as a new dataset to test the recombining plasma models used to simulate afterbody flows during atmospheric reentry.

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hal-02494227 , version 1 (28-02-2020)

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Augustin Tibère-Inglesse, Sean Mcguire, Pierre Mariotto, Christophe O. Laux. Experimental study of recombining nitrogen plasmas: I. Vibronic population distributions and nonequilibrium molecular radiation. Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 2019, 28 (7), pp.075018. ⟨10.1088/1361-6595/ab2cc4⟩. ⟨hal-02494227⟩
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