Temperature's optical tomography diagnosis of arc plasma jet flowing into air

Abstract

An argon arc jet plasma flowing into air is chosen as a practical example to study the multiple species jet plasma's optical computerized tomography (OCT) diagnosis. The refractive index models of the pure argon and the multiple species arc plasmas are supplied. On the basis of which, the temperature reconstruction model of the multiple species arc plasma is further derived. By theoretical calculation, the effect of mixed air on the refractive index is given. For the sake of better proving the effect of directly omitting the mixed air on flow field's temperature reconstruction from the refractive index, a simulated experiment is supplied. Finally, the condition, which can be adopted to estimate that whether the pure argon arc plasma refractive index model still can be used as the temperature reconstruction model of the argon arc plasma jet flowing into air, is proposed.