Measurements of N2(A3Σ+u, v) Kinetics in Nonequilibrium Plasmas and Nonequilibrium Hypersonic Flows
By: Elijah Jans
Understanding the impact that real gas effects have behind strong shock waves is critical for design of hypersonic vehicles. These real gas effects cause nonequilibrium energy transfer and chemical kinetics that need to be understood for predictive modeling of flows over hypersonic vehicles. To experimental study these effects use of several optical diagonistics techniques will be presented with recent laboratory results.