Author: Victor R. Buonadonna
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Category : Gasdynamic lasers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A preliminary analytic feasibility study has been made concerning the addition of stagnation enthalpy to the air flow of a hypersonic wind tunnel by volume energy addition using a high power (megawatts) CO2 laser. A model has been formulated on the basis of quasi one-dimensional, steady flow in a Laval nozzle with a collimated laser beam propagating in the downstream direction. Stagnation conditions on the order of 10,000K at 1,000 atm. are possible with 10% head losses. Heat transfer rate at the throat (50 kWatts/square centimeter) is the major limiting factor to successful operation. (Author).
The Laser Heated Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Author: Victor R. Buonadonna
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Category : Gasdynamic lasers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A preliminary analytic feasibility study has been made concerning the addition of stagnation enthalpy to the air flow of a hypersonic wind tunnel by volume energy addition using a high power (megawatts) CO2 laser. A model has been formulated on the basis of quasi one-dimensional, steady flow in a Laval nozzle with a collimated laser beam propagating in the downstream direction. Stagnation conditions on the order of 10,000K at 1,000 atm. are possible with 10% head losses. Heat transfer rate at the throat (50 kWatts/square centimeter) is the major limiting factor to successful operation. (Author).
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Category : Gasdynamic lasers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A preliminary analytic feasibility study has been made concerning the addition of stagnation enthalpy to the air flow of a hypersonic wind tunnel by volume energy addition using a high power (megawatts) CO2 laser. A model has been formulated on the basis of quasi one-dimensional, steady flow in a Laval nozzle with a collimated laser beam propagating in the downstream direction. Stagnation conditions on the order of 10,000K at 1,000 atm. are possible with 10% head losses. Heat transfer rate at the throat (50 kWatts/square centimeter) is the major limiting factor to successful operation. (Author).
The Laser Heated Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Author: Victor R. Buonadonna
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Category : Gasdynamic lasers
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A preliminary analytic feasibility study has been made concerning the addition of stagnation enthalpy to the air flow of a hypersonic wind tunnel by volume energy addition using a high power (megawatts) CO2 laser. A model has been formulated on the basis of quasi one-dimensional, steady flow in a Laval nozzle with a collimated laser beam propagating in the downstream direction. Stagnation conditions on the order of 10,000K at 1,000 atm. are possible with 10% head losses. Heat transfer rate at the throat (50 kWatts/square centimeter) is the major limiting factor to successful operation. (Author).
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Category : Gasdynamic lasers
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A preliminary analytic feasibility study has been made concerning the addition of stagnation enthalpy to the air flow of a hypersonic wind tunnel by volume energy addition using a high power (megawatts) CO2 laser. A model has been formulated on the basis of quasi one-dimensional, steady flow in a Laval nozzle with a collimated laser beam propagating in the downstream direction. Stagnation conditions on the order of 10,000K at 1,000 atm. are possible with 10% head losses. Heat transfer rate at the throat (50 kWatts/square centimeter) is the major limiting factor to successful operation. (Author).
Conceptual Design for an Electron-beam Heated Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
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Languages : en
Pages : 54
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There is a need for hypersonic wind-tunnel testing at about mach 10 and above using natural air and simulating temperatures and pressures which are prototypic of flight at 50 km altitude or below. With traditional wind-tunnel techniques, gas cooling during expansion results in exit temperatures which are too low. Miles, et al., have proposed overcoming this difficulty by heating the air with a laser beam as it expands in the wind-tunnel nozzle. This report discusses an alternative option of using a high-power electron beam to heat the air as it expands. In the e-beam heating concept, the electron beam is injected into the wind-tunnel nozzle near the exit and then is guided upstream toward the nozzle throat by a strong axial magnetic field. The beam deposits most of its power in the dense air near the throat where the expansion rate is greatest. A conceptual design is presented for a large-scale system which achieves Mach 14 for 0.1 seconds with an exit diameter of 2.8 meters. It requires 450 MW of electron beam power (5 MeV at 90 A). The guiding field is 500 G for most of the transport length and increases to 100 kG near the throat to converge the beam to a 1.0-cm diameter. The beam generator is a DC accelerator using a Marx bank (of capacitors) and a diode stack with a hot cathode. 14 refs. 38 figs., 9 tabs.
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Languages : en
Pages : 54
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There is a need for hypersonic wind-tunnel testing at about mach 10 and above using natural air and simulating temperatures and pressures which are prototypic of flight at 50 km altitude or below. With traditional wind-tunnel techniques, gas cooling during expansion results in exit temperatures which are too low. Miles, et al., have proposed overcoming this difficulty by heating the air with a laser beam as it expands in the wind-tunnel nozzle. This report discusses an alternative option of using a high-power electron beam to heat the air as it expands. In the e-beam heating concept, the electron beam is injected into the wind-tunnel nozzle near the exit and then is guided upstream toward the nozzle throat by a strong axial magnetic field. The beam deposits most of its power in the dense air near the throat where the expansion rate is greatest. A conceptual design is presented for a large-scale system which achieves Mach 14 for 0.1 seconds with an exit diameter of 2.8 meters. It requires 450 MW of electron beam power (5 MeV at 90 A). The guiding field is 500 G for most of the transport length and increases to 100 kG near the throat to converge the beam to a 1.0-cm diameter. The beam generator is a DC accelerator using a Marx bank (of capacitors) and a diode stack with a hot cathode. 14 refs. 38 figs., 9 tabs.
Development and Operation of an Arc Heated Hypersonic Tunnel
Author: P.M. Sherman
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Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Description and Preliminary Calibration Tests of a Small Arc-heated Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Author: William B. Boatright
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Category : Wind tunnels
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category : Wind tunnels
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Laser-spectroscopic Measurement Techniques for Hypersonic, Turbulent Wind Tunnel Flows
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Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Design and Calibration of an Arc-heated, Hypersonic, Low-density Wind Tunnel
Author: Ruth N. Weitmann
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Category : Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category : Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Flow Evaluation in an Arc-heated Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Author: Roger Bell Stewart
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Category : Aerodynamics, Hypersonic
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : Aerodynamics, Hypersonic
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Experimental Investigation of the Test Flow in an Arc-heated Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Author: James L. Folck
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Category : Hypersonic wind tunnels
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Category : Hypersonic wind tunnels
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Development and Calibration of a Continuous-flow Arc-heated Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
Author: Donald R. Wilson
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Languages : en
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