Collisional broadening and pressure shift coefficients for the potassium D1 and D2 transitions in oxygen and carbon dioxide at high temperatures

JA Vandervort, K Kotsarinis, SC Barnes… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2024 - Elsevier
Collisional broadening and pressure shift parameters for the potassium resonance doublet,
near 770 nm, are reported for collisions with molecular oxygen and carbon dioxide …

Development of a vapor-based method for seeding alkali metals in shock tube facilities

JA Vandervort, SC Barnes, CL Strand, RK Hanson - Shock Waves, 2024 - Springer
This note presents a vapor-based seeding apparatus, named the external alkali seeding
instrument (EASI), which is designed to introduce alkali metal vapors into experimental …

Collisional broadening and pressure shift of the potassium resonance doublets by nitrogen, helium, and hydrogen at high temperatures

Y Ding, JA Vandervort, RS Freedman, CL Strand… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents measurements of collisional broadening and pressure shift parameters
for the potassium D1 and D2 transitions near 0.77 μ m with the collisional partners of …

Laser absorption sensor targeting potassium for hypersonic velocity, temperature, and enthalpy measurements

T Schwartz, PM Finch, CL Strand, RK Hanson, Y Luo… - AIAA Journal, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
A laser absorption-based sensor for hypersonic gas flows was developed, targeting the D 1
spectroscopic transition of atomic potassium near 770 nm. The sensor applies rapid …

Potassium release during pulverized biomass combustion in a tubular burner investigated by TDLAS

S Cen, W Xiaolin, L Teng, Z Li, T Qinzheng, L Sen - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
The ignition and effect of different treatments of pulverized biomass on potassium release
were monitored online using visible light detection and calibration-free TDLAS techniques in …

Characterization of the Caltech hypervelocity expansion tube via tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy

T Schwartz, J Girard, PM Finch, W Yu… - AIAA Propulsion and …, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-3524. vid We report on
measurements of freestream velocity in the Caltech Hypervelocity Expansion Tube (HET) …

A laser diagnostic for lineshape-based gas temperature and pressure measurements targeting a single atomic potassium absorption transition

JA Vandervort, T Schwartz, SC Barnes, CL Strand… - Applied Physics B, 2024 - Springer
A single-line laser absorption diagnostic technique has been developed for rapid
measurements of temperature and pressure in high-enthalpy gas environments. This …

Laser-based in-situ absorption spectroscopy sensor for gas measurements in an impulse facility

T Schwartz, JP Santos, CL Strand… - AIAA SCITECH 2023 …, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-2519. vid We report an in-situ laser-
based sensor to measure velocity in supersonic gas flows. This sensor makes the …

Simultaneous Point Measurements of Temperature, Pressure, and Velocity Using Spectrally Resolved Laser-Induced Fluorescence of Atomic Potassium Vapor in Air

J Vandervort, K Kotsarinis, C Strand… - AIAA SCITECH 2025 …, 2025 - arc.aiaa.org
A diagnostic technique for simultaneous measurements of temperature, pressure, and
velocity at a point is demonstrated in high-enthalpy air environments using spectrally …

Potassium lineshape study with collisional partners of nitrogen, helium, and hydrogen

JA Vandervort - 2022 - ideals.illinois.edu
Abstract\begin {wrapfigure}{r}{0pt}\includegraphics [scale= 0.105]{ISMS_2022_K-
N2HeH2_Image. eps}\end {wrapfigure} Potassium can be used as a convenient tracer …