Computer Science
Scientific paper
Feb 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011psst...20a5015n&link_type=abstract
Plasma Sources Science and Technology, Volume 20, Issue 1, pp. 015015 (2011).
Computer Science
Scientific paper
Planetary probes penetrating at supersonic speed into high atmosphere require the development of composite materials for thermal protection of the surface exposed to a high enthalpy flux. Rarefied arc plasmas can be used to simulate the atmospheric re-entry plasmas. The aim of this paper is to describe the latest results of optical emission measurements of the CH (A-X) system, the CN violet (B-X) bands and the NH (A-X) electronic transitions in a N2-CH4 plasma source (Titan's atmosphere) and in a gas mixture of Ar-CH4. In order to deduce the plasma parameters, such as rotational and vibrational temperatures, of these molecular species in the plasma environment, numerical simulation codes have been implemented. In this context, rotational temperatures near 7000 K for CN and 3500 K to 2800 K for the hydrides NH and CH, respectively, are observed. The vibrational temperature of the CH molecule is around 3800 K while those of the CN and NH molecules are 9500 K and 7900 K, respectively.
Lago Viviana
Ndiaye A. A.
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