[AR] Re: Concussion Wind tunnel

  • From: doug knight <dougchar001@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 11:16:42 -0400

Make a shock tube. Have made one using propane air mixture using OTS
components. Piping was most expensive part.

If that test gives value to what you are trying to understand.

Doug K
On Sep 3, 2014 11:10 AM, "Monroe L. King Jr." <monroe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>  This might be a stupid idea but I wonder if you could use a blast wave
> as a wind tunnel of sorts? Suppose you have your model and you set off a
> detonation and used high speed photography to catch the shock wave
> hitting your model. I wonder if you could get some useful information?
>  If it works it would be a cheaper way to get useful wind tunnel data.
>
>  Monroe
>
>

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