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Analysis of a piston-driven shock tube

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Gabi Ben-Dor  and
Ozer Igra
Gabi Ben-Dor
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Ozer Igra
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
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A shock tube is a facility that produces fast and A relatively high temperature flows by driving a strong shock wave into quiescent gas. From simple shock tube theory it is possible to show that in order to obtain high Mach number primary shock waves one should employ a very light driving gas at the highest pressure and temperature possible. These conditions are most commonly met by the explosion of a stochiometric mixture of inflammable gases, such as oxygen and hydrogen diluted with helium.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 82 , Issue 808 , April 1978 , pp. 178 - 181
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1978 

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