Contact surface tailoring condition for shock tubes with different driver and driven section diameters

Shock Waves

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 331-336

  Hong, Zekai ^a   Davidson, David F ^a   Hanson, Ronald K ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact surface; Convergent shock tube; Tailoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350026287     PISSN: 09381287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00193-009-0212-z     Document Type: Article

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