[AR] Re: Concussion Wind tunnel

  • From: "Monroe L. King Jr." <monroe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 08:27:05 -0700

 Ahhh thank you, never heard of a shock tube before. Interesting! May be
useful in some experiments I'm working on.

 Monroe

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [AR] Re: Concussion Wind tunnel
> From: doug knight <dougchar001@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, September 03, 2014 8:16 am
> To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 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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