Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
A time-accurate two-dimensional fluid code is used to compute test times in shock tubes operated at supersonic speeds. Unlike previous studies, this investigation resolves the finer temporal details of the shock-tube flow by making use of modern supercomputers and state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamic solution techniques. The code, besides solving the time-dependent fluid equations, also accounts for the finite rate chemistry in the hypersonic environment. The flowfield solutions are used to estimate relevant shock-tube parameters for laminar flow, such as test times, and to predict density and velocity profiles. Boundary-layer parameters such as bar-delta(sub u), bar-delta(sup *), and bar-tau(sub w), and test time parameters such as bar-tau and particle time of flight t(sub f), are computed and compared with those evaluated by using Mirels' correlations. This article then discusses in detail the effects of flow nonuniformities on particle time-of-flight behind the normal shock and, consequently, on the interpretation of shock-tube data. This article concludes that for accurate interpretation of shock-tube data, a detailed analysis of flowfield parameters, using a computer code such as used in this study, must be performed.
Keywords:
Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
Type:
NASA/TM-96-207282
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NAS 1.15:207282
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AIAA Paper 95-0713
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Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit; Jan 09, 1995 - Jan 12, 1995; Reno, NV; United States|Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer; 10; 1; 169-176
Format:
application/pdf
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