The T5 Hypervelocity Shock Tunnel Facility

Last updated 22 October 97.

The T5 Hypervelocity Shock Tunnel is an impulse facility capable of reaching very high stagnation temperatures and pressures at relatively high densities. These conditions are needed to simulate the real gas effects of chemical dissociation and reaction that occur in flows about vehicles flying at sub-orbital speeds through the atmosphere.

The T5 shock tunnel; what it is and how it works.
Our current data acquisition capabilities.
Systems for flow visualization in T5.
Photographs showing different parts of T5.
T5: the people and the projects.
Publications and other reports from the T5 lab group.
Schedule of past research in T5.
Table of T5 Run Conditions
Resources, mostly for lab users
Related links.
The Jenkins Cup trophy.

The T5 Hypervelocity Shock Tunnel Facility

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