Research Article

Plasma Wind Tunnel Investigation of European Ablators in Nitrogen/Methane Using Emission Spectroscopy

Figure 5

(a) Temporal evolution of measured spectra of C2 at 1.4 MW/m² 3 mm in front of probe surface. (b) Measured (black) and simulated (red) spectra at 21.5 mm distance to probe center for plasma condition C1, including the simulated plasma species (  K,  K) and CN (  K,  K).
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