Shock tubes

Ozer Igra; Lazhar Houas

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-23745-9_1

Shock tubes

Ozer Igra, Lazhar Houas

Department of Mechanical Engineering

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A shock tube is a facility that can produce transmitted shock waves in controlled laboratory conditions. The facility is a duct divided into two sections as shown schematically in Fig. 1. One part, the driver, accommodates high pressure gas (P4) while the other section (the driven) contains the low pressure test gas (P1). The two sections are separated by a barrier (diaphragm). Once the barrier is suddenly removed a shock wave propagates into the driven section and a rarefaction wave propagates into the driver section. By appropriate choice of the two pressures, P4 and P1, and gas species a desired strength of the resulting/generated shock wave (its Mach number, Ms) can be obtained. As shown subsequently, the initial thermodynamic conditions of the gases used dictate the post-shock flow i.e., the conditions behind the shock wave.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Experimental Methods of Shock Wave Research
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	3-52
Number of pages	50
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319237459
ISBN (Print)	9783319237442
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23745-9_1
State	Published - 1 Jan 2016

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