Shock tube flows can be used to investigate nonequilibrium thermochemistry and radiative processes found in hypersonic flows. The flow in a shock tube contains many flow nonuniformities, in particular boundary-layer effects. For the purpose of studying the properties of the test slug, the flow behind the shock is usually considered analogous to the stagnation line flow over a blunt body. In reality, radial and longitudinal velocity distributions in the two flows are different, and so a coordinate transformation is needed to match time-of-flight profiles. This work develops a method to approximately transform the postshock distance for normal and blunt body shocks to a shock tube flow using a Mirels analysis. The effects of shock tube diameter and shock speed variation are highlighted along with the importance of postshock temperature and density rises. This is then applied to blunt body simulations of NASA EAST data for air and Titan tests. This showed that minimal difference is encountered for fast reacting flows. However, large differences can be seen in the slower reacting Titan tests, which to date have been misinterpreted when compared to blunt body simulations.


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    Title :

    Spatial Transformations for Reacting Gas Shock Tube Experiments


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 61 , 8 ; 3365-3374


    Publication date :

    2023-06-19


    Size :

    10 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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