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1 online resource (646 pages) |
| Series |
Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics ; v. 198 |
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Progress in astronautics and aeronautics.
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| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1 Hypersonic Ground Test Requirements""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. History, Status, and Outlook for Hypersonic Test Requirements""; ""III. Potential Civilian Hypersonic Test Requirements Futures""; ""A. Planetary Exploration""; ""B. Access to Space""; ""IV. Military Hypersonic Test Requirements Futures""; ""A. Access to Space""; ""B. Missiles""; ""V. Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Chapter 2 Principles of Hypersonic Test Facility Development""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Critical Hypersonic Technologies"" |
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""III. Hypersonic Scaling""""IV. High Enthalpy and High Speed""; ""V. Types of Hypersonic Facilities""; ""VI. Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3 NASA's HYPULSE Facility at GASL � A Dual Mode, Dual Driver Reflected-Shock/Expansion Tunnel""; ""I. Introduction""; ""A. Background""; ""B. Scope of the Chapter""; ""II. Shock Tunnels and Expansion Tubes""; ""A. Shock-Heated Facilities""; ""B. Reflected-Shock Tunnels""; ""C. Shock-Expansion Tubes""; ""III. Driver Methods""; ""A. Lighter Gases""; ""B. Electrically Heated Light Gases"" |
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""C. Combustion Heated Light Gases""""D. Compressively Heated Light Gases (Free-Piston Driver)""; ""E. Summary of Comparison of Driver Techniques""; ""F. The Shock-Induced Detonation Driver for HYPULSE""; ""IV. Operation and Performance of HYPULSE""; ""A. Facility Configuration and Sizing""; ""B. HYPULSE Operation""; ""C. Test Conditions Verification""; ""D. Test Time Determination""; ""V. Driver Gas Contamination in Detonation-Driven RST Mode""; ""A. Nozzle Flow""; ""B. Transient Development of Driver-Gas Leakage""; ""VI. Nozzle Design for Expansion Tunnel Mode Operation"" |
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""A. Skimmer Nozzles""""B. Full Capture Contoured Inlet Asymptoting to a Conical Profile""; ""C. Verification with Experiments""; ""VII. Concluding Remarks""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""References""; ""Chapter 4 LENS Hypervelocity Tunnels and Application to Vehicle Testing at Duplicated Flight Conditions""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Ground Test Simulation of Hypersonic Flight Performance""; ""III. Design, Operation, and Performance of the LENS I and LENS II Hypervelocity Ground Test Facilities""; ""A. Introduction""; ""B. Design and Operation of the LENS I and II Shock Tunnels"" |
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""C. Aerothermal, Aero-Optic, and Radiation Instrumentation Suites""""IV. Facility Validation""; ""V. Application of Test Facility and Instrumentation to Hypersonic Vehicle Testing""; ""A. Evaluation of the Aerothermal and Aero-optical Characteristics of High-Speed Interceptors""; ""B. Examples of Aerothermal Measurements to Evaluate Seekerhead Performance""; ""C. Example of Aero-Optic Measurements on Interceptor Seekerhead Configurations""; ""VI. Measurements of Jet Interaction Resulting from Divert Thruster Operation""; ""A. Introduction""; ""B. Flowfield and Aerothermal Characteristics"" |
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""C. Spectrometer and Radiometer Measurements of Flowfield Obscuration Phenomena"" |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Aerodynamics, Hypersonic.
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Hypersonic wind tunnels.
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Ballistic ranges.
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Rocket sleds.
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Aerodynamics, Hypersonic
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Ballistic ranges
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Hypersonic wind tunnels
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Rocket sleds
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Marren, Dan
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| ISBN |
9781600864483 |
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1600864481 |
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