Shock Waves

initial stages in the shock initiated H2 - O2 reaction.- Shock-tube development for high-pressure and low-temperature chemical kinetics experiments.- Shock-tube study of tert-butyl methyl ether pyrolysis.- Temperature dependence of the soot yield in shock wave pyrolysis of carbon-containing precursors.- Thermal reactions of o-dichlorobenzene. Single pulse shock tube investigation.- Wall heat transfer in shock tubes at long test times.- Detonation and Combustion.- A study on DDT processes in a narrow channel.- Combustion in a horizontal channel partially filled with porous media.- Continuum/particle interlocked simulation of gas detonation.- Dependence of PDE performance on divergent nozzle and partial fuel filling.- Direct Monte-Carlo simulation of developing detonation in gas.- Effects of detailed chemical reaction model on detonation simulations.- Effects of flame jet configurations on detonation initiation.- Experimental and theoretical investigation of detonation and shock waves action on phase of hydrocarbon mixture in porous media.- Experimental and theoretical study of valveless fuel supply system for PDE.- Experimental investigation of the ignition spark shock waves influence on detonation formation in hydroxygen mixtures.- Experimental study on the nonideal detonation for JB-9014 rate sticks.- Experimental study on transmission of an overdriven detonation wave across a mixture.- Flow vorticity behavior in inhomogeneous supersonic flow past shock and detonation waves.- Ground reflection interaction with height-of-burst metalized explosions.- High-fidelity numerical study on the on-set condition of oblique detonation wave cell structures.- High-pressure shock tube experiments and modeling of n-dodecane/air ignition.- Implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta methods for stiff combustion problems.- Near-field blast phenomenology of thermobaric explosions.- Numerical and theoretical analysis of the precursor shock wave formation at high-explosive channel detonation.- Numerical study on shockwave structure of superdetonative ram accelerator.- Numerical study on the self-organized regeneration of transverse waves in cylindrical detonation propagations.- On the mechanism of detonation initiations.- Overview of the 2005 Northern Lights Trials.- Physics of detonation wave propagation in 3D numerical simulations.- Propagation of cellular detonation in the plane channels with obstacless.- Re-initiation of detonation wave behind slit-plate.- Shock-to-detonation transition due to shock interaction with prechamber-jet cloud.- Shock-to-detonation transition in tube coils.- Simulation of hydrogen detonation following an accidental release in an enclosure.- Spectroscopic studies of micro-explosions.- Structural response to detonation loading in 90-degree bend.- Study on perforated plate induced deflagration waves in a smooth tube.- Unconfined aluminum particles-air detonation.- Viscous attenuation of a detonation wave propagating in a channel.- Diagnostics.- A diode laser absorption sensor for rapid measurements of temperature and water vapor in a shock tube.- A novel fast-response heat-flux sensor for measuring transition to turbulence in the boundary layer behind a moving shock wave.- Application of HEG static pressure probe in HIEST.- Application of laser-induced thermal acoustics to temperature measurement of the air behind shock waves.- Assessment of rotational and vibrational temperatures behind strong shock waves derived from CARS method.- Availability of the imploding technique as an igniter for large-scale natural-gas-engines.- Experimental study of SiC-based ablation products in high-temperature plasma-jets.- On pressure measurements in blast wave flow fields generated by milligram charges.- Quantitative diagnostics of shock wave - boundary layer interaction by digital speckle photography.- Facilities.- A simulation technique for radiating shock tube flows.- Aerodynamic force measurement technique with accelerometers in the impulsive facility HIEST.- On the free-piston shock tunnel at UniBwM (HELM).- Progress towards a microfabricated shock tube.- Flow Visualisation.- A tool for the design of slit and cutoff in schlieren method.- Application of pressure-sensitive paints in high-speed flows.- Doppler Picture Velocimetry (DPV) applied to hypersonics.- On the conservation laws for light rays across a shock wave: Toward computer design of an optical setup for flow visualization.- Shock stand-off distance over spheres flying at transonic speed ranges in air.- Shock tube study of the drag coefficient of a sphere.- Three-dimensional interferometric CT measurement of discharging shock/vortex flow around a cylindrical solid body.- Vizualization of 3D non-stationary flow in shock tube using nanosecond volume discharge.- Hypersonic Flow.- Assessment of the convective and radiative transfers to the surface of an orbiter entering a Mars-like atmosphere.- Base pressure and heat transfer on planetary entry type configurations.- Combustion performance of a scramjet engine with inlet injection.- COMPARE, a combined sensor system for re-entry missions.- Drag reduction by a forward facing aerospike for a large angle blunt cone in high enthalpy flows.- Drag reduction by counterflow supersonic jet for a blunt cone in high enthalpy flows.- Effect of electric arc discharge on hypersonic blunt body drag.- Effect of the nose bluntness on the electromagnetic flow control for reentry vehicles.- Enhanced design of a scramjet intake using two different RANS solvers.- Experimental and numerical investigation of film cooling in hypersonic flows.- Experimental and numerical investigation of jet injection in a wall bounded supersonic flow.- Experimental investigation of cowl shape and location on inlet characteristics at hypersonic Mach number.- Experimental investigation of heat transfer reduction using forward facing cavity for missile shaped bodies flying at hypersonic speed.- Extrapolation of a generic scramjet model to flight scale by experiments, flight data and CFD.- Force measurements of blunt cone models in the HIEST high enthalpy shock tunnel.- Investigations of separated flow over backward facing steps in IISc hypersonic shock tunnel.- Measurement of aerodynamic forces for missile shaped body in hypersonic shock tunnel using 6-component accelerometer based balance system.- Measurement of shock stand-off distance on a 120° blunt cone model at hypersonic Mach number in Argon.- Model for shock interaction with sharp area reduction.- Modelling dissociation in hypersonic blunt body and nozzle flows in thermochemical nonequilibrium.- Numerical and experimental investigation of viscous shock layer receptivity and instability.- Numerical rebuilding of the flow in a valve-controlled Ludwieg tube.- Numerical study of shock interactions in viscous, hypersonic flows over double-wedge geometries.- Numerical study of thermochemical relaxation phenomena in high-temperature nonequilibrium flows.- Numerical study of wall temperature and entropy layer effects on transitional double wedge shock wave/boundary layer interactions.- Similarity laws of re-entry aerodynamics - analysis of reverse flow shock and wake flow thermal inversion phenomena.- Simultanous measurements of 2-D total radiation and CARS data from hypervelocity flow behind strong shock waves.- Shock tunnel testing of a Mach 6 hypersonic waverider.- Supersonic flow over axisymmetric cavities.- Tandem spheres in hypersonic flow.- Three dimensional experimental investigation of a hypersonic double-ramp flow.- Triple point shear layers in hypervelocity flow.- Ignition.- Auto-ignition of hydrogen-air mixture at elevated pressures.- Discrepancies between shock tube and rapid compression machine ignition at low temperatures and high pressures.- Ignition delay studies on hydrocarbon fuel with and without additives.- Ignition of hydrocarbon-containing mixtures by nanosecond discharge: experiment and numerical modelling.- Laser-based ignition of hydrogen-oxygen mixture.- Measurements of ignition delay times and OH species concentrations in DME/O2/Ar mixtures.- Shock tube study of artificial ignition of N2O:O2:H2:Ar mixtures.- Shock tube study of kerosene ignition delay.- Shock-tube study of the ignition delay time of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS).