Shock tubes are used to investigate the chemical kinetics and radiative properties of gasses. Analyses of the flow conditions produced in shock tubes typically assume a single, constant shock speed even though the shock speed varies due to driver effects, boundary-layer growth, and diaphragm rupture effects. This paper will investigate the dependence of flow properties upon the entire shock speed history for a 100-mm-diam, 8-m-long shock tube using the FROSST axisymmetric shock tube Navier–Stokes code. A perfect gas is applied to remove the complexity of thermochemistry and allow a focus upon the flow details. Shock speed profiles ranging from accelerating to decelerating are simulated to qualitatively represent different experimental conditions, and the resulting test slugs compared. All shocks reach the test section at the same final shock Mach number of 6.53. Pressure variations caused by the accelerating shock are found to combine with entropy gradients introduced by the changing shock strength, yielding differences in maximum temperature of the test slug by as much as 56%, and differences in maximum pressure as high as 22% despite the shared tube-end Mach number. Local temperature and pressure around gas packets in the test slug are found to relax significantly through time in response to changing postshock conditions. Test slug variations due to boundary-layer effects are found to be present, but overwhelmed by the relaxation processes under many conditions.


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    Title :

    Flow Nonuniformities Behind Accelerating and Decelerating Shock Waves in Shock Tubes


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 60 , 3 ; 1537-1548


    Publication date :

    2022-03-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper , Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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