TY - JOUR
T1 - General treatment of the interplay between fluid and radiative transport phenomena in symmetric plasmas: the sulphur lamp as a case study
AU - Heijden, van der, H.W.P.
AU - Mullen, van der, J.J.A.M.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - A general ray-trace method for calculating the effects of radiative transfer in a control volume (CV) fluid code is presented. The method makes use of the structured CV grid of the fluid code, and is suited for geometries with a point or axis of symmetry. In particular, the specific equations for spherical and cylindrical (without z dependence) configurations are developed. The application of this method to local thermal equilibrium (LTE) and non-LTE plasma models is discussed. Various opportunities for sacrificing precision for calculation speed are pointed out.
As a case study, the effects of radiative transfer in a sulphur lamp are calculated. Since an LTE description of the molecular radiation yields a computed spectrum that differs significantly from a measured one, the possibility of a non-LTE vibrational distribution of the radiating S2-B state is investigated. The results indicate that the vibrational populations may be inversed.
AB - A general ray-trace method for calculating the effects of radiative transfer in a control volume (CV) fluid code is presented. The method makes use of the structured CV grid of the fluid code, and is suited for geometries with a point or axis of symmetry. In particular, the specific equations for spherical and cylindrical (without z dependence) configurations are developed. The application of this method to local thermal equilibrium (LTE) and non-LTE plasma models is discussed. Various opportunities for sacrificing precision for calculation speed are pointed out.
As a case study, the effects of radiative transfer in a sulphur lamp are calculated. Since an LTE description of the molecular radiation yields a computed spectrum that differs significantly from a measured one, the possibility of a non-LTE vibrational distribution of the radiating S2-B state is investigated. The results indicate that the vibrational populations may be inversed.
U2 - 10.1088/0022-3727/35/17/307
DO - 10.1088/0022-3727/35/17/307
M3 - Article
SN - 0022-3727
VL - 35
SP - 2112
EP - 2125
JO - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
JF - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
IS - 17
ER -