Influence of atom-atom collisions on the collisional-radiative ionization and recombination coefficients of helium plasmas
Influence of atom-atom collisions on the collisional-radiative ionization and recombination coefficients of helium plasmas
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10.1007/bf01379781
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发表时间:
1972-06
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H. Drawin;F. Emard
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作者:
H. Drawin;F. Emard
Coefficients for volume recombination and ionization have been calculated for a dense helium plasma of low degree of ionization. The calculations are based on a collisional-radiative model in which electron-atom, electron-electron-ion, atom-atom, and electron-atom-ion collisions intervene. Molecular species such as He2*and He2+have not been taken into account. The essential results are: At low temperatures and high neutral gas densities the recombination coefficient is proportional to the number density of neutral helium atoms. At high temperatures the presence of neutral particles practically does not influence the recombination process compared to pure ion-electron-electron recombination. At high neutral particle densities, high atom temperatures and low electron densities the ionization process is mainly due to atom-atom collisions. In this point our calculations are in relatively good agreement with recent shock tube measurements of Kalra and Measures (Phys. Fluids14, 2544 (1971)). It is emphasized that the simple two-step model for ionization by shock waves in the noble gases should be replaced by a more general collisional-radiative model in which the atomic level structure intervenes in more detail.