Combustion Investigation in the Hypersonic Shock Tunnel Driver Section
- 1 July 1959
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 30 (7) , 1018-1021
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1776974
Abstract
An investigation was made of the combustion of stoichiometric mixtures of hydrogen and oxygen with a varying percent of helium in the constant volume driver section for a hypersonic shock tunnel. The pressure was measured as a function of time for a number of initial pressures, mixture ratios, and multiple sparks for ignition. The maximum pressures observed were close to that expected for smooth burning. When detonation was encountered, the ratio of the peak pressure to the initial pressure was about 50.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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