TURBULENT WAKE GAS ANALYZER PROGRAM

Abstract

The report presents a description of the design and operation of the turbulent wake gas analyzer, a system built to extract and analyze gas samples from the wake of a ballistic missile. When a projectile is fired past the sampling probe inlet of the system, the short-lived ions and neutral molecules in the turbulent wake of the missile are ingested by the probe and transformed into a molecular beam. This beam enters a time-of-flight mass spectrometer where a complete time history analysis of the growth and decay of the short-lived wake products is performed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 09, 1969
Accession Number
AD0690524

Entities

People

  • J. L. Pfeifer
  • L. D. Ferguson

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Diameters
  • Electron Density
  • Electronics
  • Electrons
  • Fail Safe
  • Free Electrons
  • Gas Flow
  • Generators
  • High Temperature
  • Ion Sources
  • Mass Spectrometers
  • Molecular Beams
  • Molecules
  • Sampling
  • Security
  • Shock Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics.
  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Plasma Physics.