Advanced Hypersonic Test Facilities

List of contents

Hypersonic Ground Test Requirements; Principles of Hypersonic Test Facility Development; NASA's HYPULSE Facility at GASL; The LENS I and II Hypervelocity Tunnels and Application to Hypersonic Vehicle Testing Under Fully Duplicated Flight Conditions; The U-12 Large Shock Tube; Detonation-Driven Shock Tubes and Tunnels; Aerothermodynamics Research in the DLR High Enthalpy Shock Tunnel HEG; Characteristics of the HIEST and its Applicability for Hypersonic Aerothermodynamic and Scramjet Research; Piston Gasdynamic Units with Multicascade Compression; Arc-Heated Facilities; The SCIROCCO 70-MW Plasma Wind Tunnel; Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Unit; Arc-Heated Facilities (LBK) as a Tool to Study Aerothermodynamic Problems of Reentry Vehicles; The NASA Langley Research Center 8-ft High Temperature Tunnel; NASA Glenn Research Center's Hypersonic Tunnel Facility; The ONERA F4 High-Enthalpy Wind Tunnel; The AEDC Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9; A Hypersonic Ground-Test Facility Using Magnetic Levitation and Electromagnetic Propulsion; Recent Increases in Hypersonic Test Capabilities at the Holloman High Speed Test Track and Design of a Magnetically Levitated Test Track Capability; Increased Launching Capabilities at AEDC's Range/Track G; A New Mach 8-15 True Temperature Test Facility Concept to Meet the U.S. Shortfall in Hypersonic Test Capability; New-Generation Hypersonic Adiabatic Compression Facilities with Pressure Multipliers

Summary

This volume on hypersonic test facilities covers such topics as: requirements; principles of test facility development; NASA's HYPULSE facility at GASL; the LENS I and II hypervelocity tunnels; the U-12 large shock tube; and detonation-driven shock tubes and tunnels.

Product details

• Authors: University Of Texas at Arlington F Lu, University Of Texas at Arlington F. Lu, Frank K Lu, Frank K. Lu, Dan E Marren, Dan E. Marren
• Assisted by: Frank K. Lu (Editor), Daniel E. Marren (Editor)
• Publisher: Scitech Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2002
• EAN: 9781563475412
• ISBN: 978-1-56347-541-2
• No. of pages: 639
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 235 mm x 41 mm
• Weight: 1080 g
• Series: Progress in Astronautics and A
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General, Technology & Industrial Arts