Shock tube experiments are a cornerstone of investigations into the hypersonic flight environment. However, the actual flow through the basic shock tube has not been well characterized in the literature, and nonuniformities arising in the test gases are not well understood. This work produces a quasi-one-dimensional analytical methodology for predicting the nonuniformities in the postshock test gas based exclusively on the experimentally measured history of shock speed down the tube. Wave effects extracted from shock speed variations are shown to provide all information necessary in order to reconstruct the test slug from any particular experiment. Accurate representation of flow dynamics is initially checked against argon test cases following accelerating and decelerating shock trajectories, each with a tube-end Mach number of 6.5 and a fill pressure of 66.66 Pa in a tube of 100 mm diameter. Agreement between the method and results from a viscous, axisymmetric Navier–Stokes solution is found to be within 1% in pressure and temperature.


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    Title :

    Analytical Method of Evaluating Nonuniformities in Shock Tube Flows: Theory and Development


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 60 , 2 ; 654-668


    Publication date :

    2022-02-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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