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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 114, Issue 29, Pages 7761-7768Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp1040053
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- CSIC [13P]
- Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia [FIS2004-02576, FIS2007-61430, CSD2009-0038]
- Comunidad de Madrid [S-0505/ESP/0237]
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We report an experimental study of the shock wave system of three continuous axisymmetric jets of pure N-2 and H-2, and of the N-2 + 2H(2) mixture, generated at p(0) = 1 bar and T-0 = 295 K through a D = 310 mu m cylindrical nozzle against a background pressure p(b) = 6.1 mbar. Number density and rotational populations have been measured by Raman spectroscopy with high spatial resolution (similar to 15 mu m) across the normal shock wave located at zJD approximate to 8, and across the barrel shock wave at the plane zJD = 5.2. Significant differences in position, widths, and gradients of the shock waves are observed among the three jets. Such differences are qualitatively interpreted in terms of disparity in mass, inelastic cross sections, and collision numbers. Non-Boltzmann distributions of the rotational populations of N-2 are observed within the shock waves at regions where the local Knudsen number is higher than 0.05. In the N-2 + 2H(2) mixture the different behavior of the two species leads to a localized enrichment of the light component up to 20%, which might provide the basis for an efficient separation device. Measurements on the invasion of the shock wave system by the background molecules are also reported, proving such invasion to be more efficient for the lighter species H-2 than for the heavier N-2.
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