Experimental study of SiC-based ablation products in high-temperature plasma-jets

Ablation experiments of SiC-based materials have been conducted systematically in our laboratory. In the present study, physico-chemical phenomena of SiC-based ablation products in high-temperature and high-velocity micro-air plasma-jets at an atmospheric pressure are investigated experimentally. In the experiments, the SiC-based materials are inserted into the plasma-jets, the ablation products spouted out from the SiC-based materials are observed by a high-speed video camera. In addition, spectroscopic measurements are performed to investigate the radiative characteristics of the SiC-based ablation products in detail.