Role of mixing in the chemical oxygen-iodine laser reactions

The thin shear-layer equations are solved for a two-dimensional parallel jet of molecular iodine I 2 , in an electronically excited, singlet-delta oxygen freestream, O 2 ( 1 Δ), in an effort to better understand the influence of mixing on the dissociation of I 2 . Comparisons of one-dimensional premixed cases with corresponding two-dimensional let-mixed cases of varying jet velocity ratios (and therefore mixing rates) indicate that, counter to common belief, imperfect mixing, which results in initial regions of high I 2 concentrations, can lead to faster dissociation