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Abstract The species composition is one of the factors which could affect the refractive index of flow fields. So, the determination of species composition should be a key point, when optical computerized tomography (OCT) methods are applied to measure the key parameters of flow fields. In this paper, the influence of species composition on flow field's temperature diagnosis will be discussed both in theory and experiment. The final results manifest that the determination of species composition could affect not only the specific temperature values, but also the structure and distribution of the temperature. Meanwhile, it is also found that the nonlinear regular of the maximal temperature variation with the distance between the cross section and nozzle is the same in different models. Finally, the condition, which could be applied to judge whether the effect of species composition can be omitted, is proposed.