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Because of the importance of having reliable transport coefficients for argon/helium mixtures available, viscosities and thermal conductivities of such mixtures at atmospheric pressure have been recalculatedfor molar fractions of helium ranging from 0 to 1 in steps of 0.1 and for temperatures varying from 1000 to 20.000 K. We have found that the viscosities of Ar/He gas mixtures in the temperature range from 1000 to 10,000 K strongly depend on the values which are used to describe the interaction potentials between argon and helium atoms. For example, an anomalous behavior has been found, indicating higher values of the viscosity of Ar/He mixtures compared to those of pure argon or pure helium in a temperature range from 6000 to 10,000 K if one data set for Ar/He interatomic potentials is used. While this anomalous behavior disappears if other data sets are used. Our calculations of thermal conductivities of Ar/He plasmas have shown that the temperature dependences of thermal conductivities of mixtures are almost the samefor different sources of interatomic pote11tials between argon and helium atoms. An anomalous behavior has been found indicating higher values of the thermal conductivities of Ar/He mixtures compared to those of pure argon or pure helium in a temperature range Fom 11,000 to 15,000 K. regardless of which data set is used for Ar-He interatomic potentials. Calculating and analyzing the data of the thermal conductivities for molar fractions of helium Fom 90% to 100% in step changes of 1% indicates that this anomalous behavior is due to the contributions not only from heavy species but also from electrons and chemical reactions. The electron thermal conductivity, as well as the reactional thermal conductivity, decrease with increasing helium molar fractions from 90% to 100%. While the heavy particle thermal conductivity becomes higher with increasing helium molar fraction. The peak of the reactional conductivities will he reduced to 30% and shifted to lower temperatures (from 12,500 to 11,000 K) when the helium molar fractions increase from 92% to 99%. The data presented in this paper are considered to he the most reliable property data available for Ar/He mixtures.
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This work was supported by DOE under Grant DOE/DE-FG02- 85ERI3433A009, and by NSF under Grant CDR-87-21545, Engineering Research Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing. The government has certain rights in this material. The support through the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute is gratefully acknowledged.
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Chen, W.L.T., Heberlein, J., Pfender, E. et al. Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Argon/Helium Plasmas at Atmospheric Pressure. Plasma Chem Plasma Process 15, 559–579 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03651423
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