Properties and applications of cold supersonic gas jet

By analyzing the formation mechanism of a supersonic gas jet, a set of equations which describe the atomic beam properties were established. The influence of initial temperature, initial pressure, background gas pressure and pumping speed was discussed in detail. A simulation program was developed based on the equations, and the results under different initial conditions were obtained. The results are in good agreement with the experimental data, and suggest that, in order to get much smaller transverse momentum in collision experiments, it is necessary to lower the initial temperature and the initial pressure of the supersonic gas jet, together with increasing the pumping speed. These results are very instructive for construction of a new generation of cold supersonic gas jets.     

Normal interaction between a supersonic axisymmetric jet and a surface containing a hole coaxial with the jet

The influence of the position of a supersonic jet source relative to a flat plate and of the size of a hole on it on the amplitude and frequency of shock wave oscillations is numerically investigated by integrating 2D Navier-Stokes equations using the predictor-corrector scheme of the second-order accuracy in time and space. Depending on the source-plate distance, an increase in the hole size raises or lowers the oscillation frequency. The oscillation amplitude decreases with increasing hole size.     

The connection between sound production and jet structure of the supersonic impinging jet

An experimental investigation into the sound-producing characteristics of moderately and highly underexpanded supersonic impinging jets exhausting from a round convergent nozzle is presented. The production of large plate tones by impingement on a square plate with a side dimension equal to 12 nozzle exit diameters is studied using random and phase-locked shadowgraph photography. Discrete frequency sound is produced in the near-wall region of the jet when a Mach disk occurs upstream of the standoff shock wave. Tones cease when the plate distance is approximately 2.2 free-jet cell lengths and the first and second shock waves are located in the free-jet positions. The production of impulsive sound appears to be associated with the collapse of the standoff shock wave during a portion of the oscillation cycle. Results from unsteady plate-pressure measurements indicate that plane-wave motion occurs in the impingement region and a secondary pressure maximum is observed on the plate adjacent to the flow region where sound appears to originate.     

激光干涉技术在超声速气体喷嘴特性研究中的应用

在激光与物质相互作用的实验中,气体靶通常由超声速喷嘴在高背压下向真空中高速喷射气体产生。激光与气体靶相互作用时确定打靶条件对整个实验有着十分重要的意义。为了得到不同实验条件下气体靶密度的分布特性，采用马赫-曾德尔干涉法测量了气体靶密度分布，获取了干涉图样。使用基于傅里叶变换的条纹处理方法测得的干涉图样，得到不同实验条件下气体分子密度的全空间分布。实验表明：用M-Z干涉仪测量超声速气体喷嘴产生的气体靶密度分布十分有效。基于傅里叶变换的条纹处理方法具有精度高、实时性好的优点，为打靶时气体靶密度的实时测量提供了可能。     

Interaction of shock waves with a jet wake during gas injection into supersonic stream

In the present paper, we report the results of an experimental study of the interaction region of a planar compression shock produced by a wedge in stream with the wake formed behind a cocurrent gas jet (H₂, air, or Ar) injected into the flow. Depending on the gas jet parameters, three modes of interaction could be distinguished: a strong interaction, observed when the flow velocity in the wake was subsonic; a moderate interaction, observed when a subsonic flow region, bounded by a shock of almost conical shape, formed in the vicinity of the compression shock; and a neutral interaction. Three-dimensional non-stationary Euler equations were solved to numerically examine the interaction of an axisymmetric jet with an oblique shock wave. The obtained interaction regimes were found to be in a reasonable agreement with experimental data.     

超声喷流氩氢混合团簇特性研究

利用瑞利散射方法研究了超声喷流Ar-CH4混合团簇和超声喷流Ar-H2混合团簇的特性.通过测量不同混合比例和不同背压下所形成混合团簇的散射信号发现,当用Ar气和CH4的混合气体进行超声喷流时很容易形成Ar-CH4混合团簇,当Ar气含量为50%时混合团簇尺度最大且大于相同气压下纯Ar团簇尺度和纯CH4团簇尺度.实验发现,与纯H2团簇只能在低温条件下获得不同,常温下即可形成Ar-H2混合团簇,实现了常温下含氢团簇的获取,从而有效降低了制备成本.在H2含量大于40%时混合团簇开始形成并在60%时达到最大尺度.含氢(氘)混合团簇在氢(氘)团簇的基础上引入了更重的异核Ar元素,在激光氘团簇聚变实验中它将进一步加速氘离子从而获得更高的能量,并具有更高的中子产额和聚变效率.     

ASACUSA: atomic spectroscopy and collisions using slow antiprotons

The ASACUSA experiment [1] was approved last year for the Antiproton Decelerator at CERN. Its aim is to study basic atomic processes of slow antiprotons: stopping power and ionization in low-pressure gases, Coulomb capture of antiprotons and to make laser spectroscopy of antiprotonic transitions. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Determination of the kinetic coefficients of a gas in a supersonic jet from Brillouin spontaneous scattering spectra

The mean free path and the shear viscosity of molecular nitrogen are determined in a rarefied supersonic jet using the Brillouin spontaneous scattering technique. By examples of sub-and supersonic jets, the measured kinetic coefficients are shown to agree with the tabulated values of these parameters. These results are obtained using laser radiation, whose output power, which restricts the signal-to-noise ratio, is as low as 50 mW.     

A PIV study of a supersonic impinging jet

The characteristics of supersonic impinging jets are investigated using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). The purpose of the experiments is to understand the jet induced forces on STOVL aircraft while hovering close to the ground. For this purpose, a large diameter circular plate was attached at the nozzle exit. The oscillations of the impinging jet generated due to a feedback loop are captured in the PIV images. The instantaneous velocity field measurements are used to describe flow characteristics of the impinging jet. The important flow features such as oscillating shock waves, slipstream shear layers and large scale structures are captured clearly by the PIV. The presence of large scale structures in the impinging jet induced high entrainment velocity in the near hydrodynamic field, which resulted in lift plate suction pressures. A passive control device is used to interfere with the acoustic waves travelling in the ambient medium to suppress the feedback loop. As a consequence, the large scale vortical structures disappeared completely leading to a corresponding reduction in the entrainment.     

Stereoscopic PIV measurements of a screeching supersonic jet

The effect of acoustic feed back on global flow response is illustrated through an example of a rectangular screeching jet operating at a nominal Mach number of 1.69. Using a stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry, the detailed flow characteristics within a screeching cycle are obtained with fidelity. To resolve the “bias” errors inherent with standard PIV image processing technique, a novel mesh-free and high spatial resolution scheme is implemented to yield accurate velocity measurements in a complex three-dimensional supersonic flow. The axis-switching phenomenon that arises due to unusual mixing enhancement in the minor axis plane of a rectangular jet is vividly displayed. Strong streamwise vortex structure in the jet shear layers, enhanced by the inherent instability of the shear layer, is reported.     

静态真空对超声喷流气体团簇制备的实验研究

研究了靶室静态真空对超声喷流气体团簇产生和制备的影响.通过瑞利散射方法测量了不同静态真空度下超声喷流氩团簇的尺度和密度参数,发现在喷嘴出口附近团簇尺度和密度受静态真空度的影响较小;在距离喷嘴较远处,氩气团簇存在同氢气团簇类似的自限制效应,验证了自限制效应在团簇制备、输运过程中的重要作用.该结果对于建造基于激光聚变原理的桌面中子源具有较大的参考意义,可据此简化真空装置以降低运行和维护成本.     

瑞利散射法研究超声喷流二氧化碳团簇尺度轴向分布

针对特定尺度的小锥喷嘴,用瑞利散射方法研究了超声喷流二氧化碳团簇的瑞利散射信号S和团簇尺度N的轴向分布.实验发现,散射信号强度的对数ln(S)随着轴向距离Z的平方根的增大线性减小,团簇尺度最大位置出现在距喷嘴轴向距离4 mm附近,在背压6—17 bar范围内散射信号S与背压P满足S∝P^3.6—4.2,测量到最大的团簇约为1.6×10⁴分子/团簇. 关键词： 二氧化碳团簇 轴向分布 团簇尺度 瑞利散射     

Gas dynamics of a supersonic radial jet. Part I

The gas dynamics of a supersonic radial jet was studied under conditions close to cold spraying. The jet visualization was performed for exhaustion into submerged space with atmospheric pressure and jet impingement to a target. For the cases of swirled and unswirled supersonic radial jets, the pressure profiles measured by a Pitot tube were taken for different distances from the nozzle outlet and for different widths of supersonic part δ _ex = 0.5?2 mm and for prechamber pressure in the range p ₀ = 1?2.5 MPa.     

Fine-structure spectroscopy of 2-methylnaphthalene cooled in a supersonic jet

The fluorescence and fluorescence excitation spectra of 2-methylnaphthalene molecules cooled in a supersonic jet are measured. The frequencies of vibrations in the S ₀ and S ₁ states, as well as the relative intensities of electronic-vibrational transitions in the fluorescence and fluorescence excitation spectra, are calculated with the semiempirical MO/M8ST method. The intensities are calculated in the Franck-Condon approximation taking into account the mixing of all the 38 totally symmetric normal vibrations. Based on the calculations, most observed spectral lines are assigned. It is shown that the calculation accuracy of the method is high enough for it to be used to interpret the spectra of molecules of aromatic compounds such as substituted naphthalenes. It is found that the main contribution to the fluorescence spectrum is made by four optically active vibrations.     

Formation of mixed clusters in a pulsed supersonic helium-oxygen-isoprene jet

An experimental study of the formation of mixed van der Waals oxygen-isoprene complexes, generated in an expanding supersonic helium-oxygen-isoprene jet at various stagnation pressures and at diverse oxygen and isoprene concentrations, has been performed. To measure the composition and distribution of the partial densities of the individual components, molecular beam mass spectrometry was adapted to pulsed modes of gas source operation. The particularities of applying mass spectrometry to studying clustered isoprene streams in a pulsed mode have been discussed. The composition of small clusters generated in a free supersonic jet has been checked for dependencies upon the initial mixture composition and stagnation pressure. The mechanism of nucleation has been identified for different partial concentrations of impurities in the helium stream. It has been shown that, even at a 0.3% concentration of isoprene in the mixture, nucleation starts with the formation of hydrocarbon complexes. The specific features of the dissociative ionization of van der Waals complexes, consisting of pure isoprene and mixed complexes, have been discussed. The conditions needed for the formation of binary oxygen-isoprene van der Waals complexes have been identified.     

Fluorescence polarization of helical molecules cooled in a supersonic jet

The β-binaphthylene oxide molecules studied under supersonic cooling conditions have a number of specific properties due to their nonplanarity. Low-frequency vibrations of the molecules in the excited S1 state are higher than the frequencies for the S0 state, and conversely the high-frequency vibrations have lower frequencies. The S₀-S₂ fluorescence excitation spectrum is structureless. The absence of a Q branch in the rotational contour of the line for the purely electronic transition indicates that it is substantially broadened and shifted toward shorter wavelengths as a result of rotational perturbations of the helical structure of the molecule. Multiplet lines in the spectra of β-binaphthylene oxide complexes with argon, krypton, and xenon correspond to different isomeric complexes. Their bond energies are below those observed previously for planar polycyclic molecules such as perilene, fluorene, and carbazole. The greater number of isomers with xenon is due to strengthening of the bond in the van der Waals complex and the nonequivalence of the position of the xenon atoms on the outside and inside of the helical molecule. __________ Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 73, No. 4, pp. 473–477, July–August, 2006.     

Two-color resonance photoionization spectrum of nickelocene in a supersonic jet

Two-color photoionization of nickelocene molecules cooled in a supersonic jet is performed using a tunable nanosecond pulsed laser. The first stage of the multiphoton excitation is the transition from the highest occupied molecular orbital of nickelocene to the lowest Rydberg level. Conditions are found under which molecular ions (η ⁵-C₅H₅)₂Ni⁺ are the only product of the multiphoton ionization in the one-color experiment. Irradiation of an excited molecule by an intense pulse of another laser increases significantly the yield of molecular ions. The dependence of the yield of (η⁵-C₅H₅)₂Ni⁺ ions on the frequency of the second laser makes it possible to determine the adiabatic ionization potential of nickelocene as 6.138±0.012eV.