Abstract

The first use of laser-induced fluorescence for spatially resolved plasma velocity measurements within an arcjet nozzle are described.The arcjet was operated on a propellant of pure hydrogen.The Balmer-α transition of atomic hydrogen was scanned by the excitation laser source while simultaneously detecting the spectrally integrated resonance fluorescence.Velocity was determined from the Doppler shift in the peak of the laser excitation spectrum relative to a stationary reference.The arcjet operating conditions were chosen to facilitate a comparison between these measurements and arcjet modeling results of Butler et al.

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