Hypersonic Shock Tunnel
The hypersonic shock tunnel is another impulse facility with a run time of 0.5 to 5.0 ms. The tunnel has a test section of 0.44 meters (diameter) by a length of 1 meter. The inviscid core is 0.17 m at Mach 8. It is capable of testing at Mach numbers from 5 to 16 and Reynolds numbers from 100 to 20 million per meter. The tunnel can be modified to accommodate a detonation driver using a mixture of hydrogen, oxygen and helium. This was completed in 1991, and led to a $1,000,000 grant to form the NASA/UTA Center for Hypersonic Research between 1993 and 1998.
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