Investigation of high-enthalpy air plasma flow with electrostatic probes

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 198-205

  Habiger, Harald A ^a,b,c   Auweter Kurtz, Monika ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b Institut für Raumfahrtsysteme   (Germany)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy resolved collision processes; Fullerene complexes; Gas phase optical spectroscopy; Ion trap mass spectrometry; Parametric excitation of secular motion

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOPLASMA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLASMA FLOW; PLASMA PROBES; REENTRY; SPACECRAFT; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS; TRAJECTORIES; WIND TUNNELS;

ELECTRON ENERGY FUNCTIONS; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; ELECTROSTATIC PROBES; KANAL THEORY; PLASMA POTENTIALS; PLASMA WIND TUNNELS; THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS;

HYPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 0032049630     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.6322     Document Type: Article

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