Emission spectroscopic measurement of ammonia or mixture of nitrogen and hydrogen plasma in a direct-current arc jet generator with an expansion nozzle

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1307-1313

  Tahara, Hirokazu ^a   Yonezawa, Takashi ^a   Andoh, Yasutaka ^a   Yoshikawa, Takao ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ammonia (mixture of nitrogen and hydrogen); Direct current arc; Expansion nozzle; Plasma jet; Spectroscopic measurement; Supersonic flow; Thermodynamical nonequilibrium

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ELECTRIC ARCS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; MASS TRANSFER; NOZZLES; PLASMA FLOW; PLASMA STABILITY; SUPERSONIC FLOW; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

EXPANSION NOZZLES;

PLASMA JETS;

EID: 0032142377     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.725163     Document Type: Article

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