ENTHALPY EFFECTS ON HYPERVELOCITY BOUNDARY LAYER
TRANSITION: EXPERIMENTS AND FREE FLIGHT DATA

Philippe H. Adam and Hans G. Hornung

Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California

 
• Abstract
• Introduction
• The T5 Free-Piston Hypervelocity Shock Tunnel
• Model and Instrumentation
• Scope of Tests and Results
  • Air and Nitrogen Runs
  • Carbon Dioxide Runs
  • Transition Reynolds Number
  • Enthalpy Effects
  • Reservoir Enthalpy Normalization
• High Enthalpy Free Flight Data
  • Free Flight F Test
  • Comparison With Experiment
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgments
• References
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