Am 03.09.2014 17:10, schrieb Monroe L. King Jr.:
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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwieg_tube You get stationary flow a couple of milliseconds.
http://www.htg-hst.de/ ( ~25 years ago they had their office one flow down from where I worked )
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