This data demonstrates the shock tube's potential for use as a part of a small hypersonic test facility and to test fundamental gas physics. Bakos uses a figure of merit of a total enthalpy of 15.2 MJ/kg for the driver section of an expansion tunnel to produce physically relevant flows. Reservoir enthalpies in excess of 18 MJ/kg can be regularly produced in this shock tube. The Cantera simulation of the shock tube also reveals that the gas behind both incident and reflected shocks is highly dissociated, even at the lower shock Mach numbers in the operational range of the facility. This affords an opportunity for inexpensive investigations of gas dynamics.
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