Test Time in Low-Pressure Shock Tubes
Open Access
- 1 September 1963
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 6 (9), 1201-1214
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1706887
Abstract
The reduction of test time in low pressure shock tubes, due to a laminar wall boundary layer, has been analytically investigated. In previous studies by Roshko and Hooker the flow was considered in a contact surface fixed coordinate system. In the present study it was assumed that the shock moves with uniform velocity, and the flow was investigated in a shock fixed coordinate system. Unlike the previous studies, the variation of free stream conditions between the shock and contact surface was taken into account. It was found that β, a parameter defined by Roshko, is considerably larger than the estimates made by Roshko and Hooker except for very strong shocks. Since test time is proportional to β−2, previous estimates of test time are too large, particularly for weak shocks. The present estimates for β appear to agree with existing experimental data to within about 10 percent for shock Mach numbers greater than 5. In other respects, the basic theory is in general agreement with the previous results of Roshko.Keywords
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