Skip to main content
Log in

Electron beam diagnostics of nitrogen. Multiquantum rotational transitions during excitation

  • Published:
Journal of Applied Mechanics and Technical Physics Aims and scope

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Literature cited

  1. E. P. Muntz, “Static temperature measurements in a flowing gas,” Phys. Fluids,5, No. 1 (1962).

  2. P. V. Marrone, “Temperature and density measurements in free jets and shock waves,” Phys. Fluids,10, No. 3 (1967).

  3. F. Robben and L. Talbot, “Measurement of shock wave thickness by the electron beam fluorescence method,” Phys. Fluids,9, No. 4 (1966).

  4. H. Ashkenas, “Rotational temperature measurements in electron beam excited nitrogen,” Phys. Fluids,10, No. 12 (1967).

  5. D. C. Lillicrap, “Experimental determination of density and rotational temperature by an improved electron beam technique,” AIAA Paper N71-605 (1971).

  6. R. B. Smith, “N2 first negative vand broadening due to electron beam excitation,” in: Rarefied Gas Dynamics: 6th Intern. Symp. Proc., Vol. 2, Academic Press, New York-London (1969).

    Google Scholar 

  7. J. C. Lengrand and M. Cloupeau, “Application of Smith's model to rotational temperature measurements in nitrogen,” AIAA J.,12, No. 6 (1974).

  8. G. Culp and A. T. Stair, “Effective rotational temperatures of N2 (3914 A) excited by monoenergetic electrons in a crossed beam,” Chem. Phys.,64, No. 1 (1967).

  9. B. M. DeKoven, D. H. Levy, et al., “Rotational excitation in the electron impact ionization of supercooled N2,” J. Chem. Phys.,74, No. 10 (1981).

  10. G. I. Sukhinin and R. G. Sharafutdinov, “Determination of effective rotational transition probabilities for electron beam excitation of the N 2+ B 2 u+ state of the ground state of nitrogen,” Zh. Tekh. Fiz.,83, No. 2 (1983).

  11. A. E. Belikov, N. V. Karelov, A. K. Rebrov and R. G. Sharafutdinov, “Measurements with the help of an electron beam. The role of secondary processes in the excitation of the B2∑ state of the nitrogen ion,” in: Rarefied Gas Flow Diagnostics [in Russian] ITF Sib. Otd. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Novosibirsk (1979).

    Google Scholar 

  12. D. Coe, F. Robben, et al., “Rotational temperatures in nonequilibrium free jet expansion of nitrogen,” Phys. Fluids,23, No. 4 (1980).

  13. A. K. Rebrov, G. I. Sukhinin, et al., “Electron beam diagnostics in nitrogen. Secondary processes,” Zh. Tekh. Fiz.,51, No. 9 (1981).

  14. D. J. Kouri, “Rotational excitation II: approximation methods,” in: Atom-Molecule Collision Theory, Plenum Press, New York-London (1979).

    Google Scholar 

  15. V. N. Ostrovsky and V. I. Ustinov, “The connections between the rotational transition cross sections in diatomic molecules,” J. Phys. B: Atom. Molec. Phys.,14, 1139 (1981).

    Google Scholar 

  16. B. N. Borzenko, N. V. Karelov, et al., “Experimental investigation of the populations of the rotational levels of molecules in a free jet of nitrogen,” Zh. Prikl. Mekh. Tekh. Fiz., No. 5 (1976).

  17. P. A. Skovorodko and R. G. Sharafutdinov, “The kinetics of the populations of the rotational levels in a free jet of nitrogen,” Zh. Prikl. Mekh. Tekh. Fiz., No. 5 (1981).

  18. K. Koura, “Rotational distributions of N2 in a free jet and a shock wave,” in: Rarefied Gas Dynamics: 11th Intern. Symp. Proc., Vo1. 2, Paris (1979).

  19. N. V. Karelov, A. K. Rebrov, andR. G. Sharafutdinov, “The population of rotational levels of nitrogen molecules during nonequilibrium condensation in a freely expanding gas,” Zh. Prikl. Mekh. Tekh. Fiz., No. 3 (1978).

  20. R. B. Smith, “Electron beam investigation of a hypersonic shock wave in nitrogen,” Phys. Fluids,15, No. 6 (1972).

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Additional information

Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 3, pp. 5–13, May–June, 1984.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Belikov, A.E., Zarvin, A.E., Karelov, N.V. et al. Electron beam diagnostics of nitrogen. Multiquantum rotational transitions during excitation. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 25, 331–340 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00910389

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00910389

Keywords

Navigation