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Emission Spectroscopic Boundary Layer Investigation during Ablative Material Testing in Plasmatron
Published on: June 9, 2016
Line-of-sight absorption measurements of high temperature gases with thermal and concentration boundary layers
Abstract:
The effect of thermal and concentration boundary layers on experimental data must be well understood for a successful diagnostic measurement of quasi-uniform high-temperature gases using line-of-sight absorption spectroscopy. In this paper, an energy-temperature curve is proposed to assist in selection of candidate absorption lines. Two techniques, the effective absorption path length method and the direct curve-fit method, are proposed to extract absolute concentrations from absorption data obtained in the presence of boundary layers.
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