Numéro
J. Phys. Colloques
Volume 40, Numéro C7, Juillet 1979
XIVe Conférence Internationale sur les Phénomènes d'Ionisation dans les Gaz / XIVth International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases
Page(s) C7-13 - C7-14
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/jphyscol:1979706
XIVe Conférence Internationale sur les Phénomènes d'Ionisation dans les Gaz / XIVth International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases

J. Phys. Colloques 40 (1979) C7-13-C7-14

DOI: 10.1051/jphyscol:1979706

SELF CONSISTENT ELECTRON ENERGY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS IN NON-EQUILIBRIUM OXYGEN

M. Capitelli, M. Dilonardo et C. Gorse.

Centro di Studio per la Chimica dei Plasmi del C.N.R., Istituto di Chimica Generale dell'Universitàvia Amendola 173-70100 Bari, Italy.


Abstract
Electron energy distribution functions (edf) of molecular oxygen have been calculated by different authors [1] by solvi ng the Boltzmann equation in cluding both elastic and inelastic processes from the ground vibrational level (these calculations will be referred hereafter as the cold gas approximation). No work on the contrary exists on the influence of superelastic vibrational collisions and of oxygen atoms on edf in reacting oxygen. In this note we report the temporal evolution of edf during the dissociation of molecular oxygen under non-equilibrium conditions.