[AR] Re: Concussion Wind tunnel
- From: Christopher Buchanan Shay <chrisshay1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 15:32:50 -0400
I wonder if some kind of internal combustion design involving pistons or a
rotary engine could cascade shock waves into a tube as well. By which I
mean somehow sawing a car engine in half. OK, forget I said that...What
about...Finally a use for that old doodlebug pulse jet engine?
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Monroe L. King Jr. <
monroe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'll say one more thing and shut up for a while. I'm working on fuel
> control and variable geometry ideas. From my background with automotive
> fuel injection and engine management systems. I see a possibility to
> control these things on some of my future designs. Steaming from my work
> on guidance and control. The guidance systems I'm working on keep
> getting more powerful and the provision for engine management and
> geometry control are just slightly ahead.
>
> Monroe
>
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: [AR] Re: Concussion Wind tunnel
> > From: David Weinshenker <daze39@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, September 03, 2014 8:51 am
> > To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> > Monroe L. King Jr. wrote:
> > > Schlieren photography
> >
> > Well, yeah, that's an example of the sort of "specialized optical
> > system" I was envisioning: I remain curious regarding the larger
> > point... assuming the success of such an imaging campaign, what
> > is thereby revealed that would be of interest from an engineering
> > point of view?
> >
> > (I recognize that capturing pretty pictures of
> > schlieren-visualized shock wave effects is not
> > an uninteresting act in itself, of course, but
> > presumably there's some object to the exercise
> > beyond the mere image?)
> >
> > Keeping a schlieren optical system correctly aligned
> > while in proximity to an operating shock tube tunnel
> > might be ... interesting! (At least electronic imaging
> > -probably- makes life easier than some of the stories
> > I've heard about the old high-speed film cameras...)
> >
> > -dave w
>
>
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