PROCEEDINGS OF FIRST SHOCK TUBE SYMPOSIUM 26-27 FEBRUARY 1957

Abstract

Contents: Air Force Special Project's Interest in Shock tube Research; The Air Force Shock Tube as a Research Tool; Design and Performance of the General Electric Six-Inch Shock Tunnel Facility; The Development of a Shock Tube to Generate Variable Stepped Shock Fronts; Studies of Transient Air Forces on Two-Dimensional Airfoils; Studies of Grids in Shock Tubes; The Development of the Shock Tube Facility for Airfoil Studies; The Surface Film, Thermometer: A versatile Shock Tube Technique; Some Observations of Bifurcated Reflected Shock Waves; Numerical Solution for the Reflection of a Compression Wave from a Rigid Wall; The Use of the Shock Tube in Hypersonic Research; and Study of Re-entrant Corners.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1957
Accession Number
AD0467201

Entities

Organizations

  • Air Force Special Weapons Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Blast
  • Boundary Layer
  • Cameras
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Explosives
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Heat Transfer
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Pressure Gages
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Telemetry Equipment
  • Weapons Effects

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow