Walker Bleakney and the development of the shock tube at Princeton

DOI10.1007/BF02434008MaRDI QIDQ1815758zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors R. J. Emrich

Publication date 28 May 1997

Published in Shock Waves (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02434008

zbMATH Keywords

blast waveBleakneyflow visualizationinterferometryMach reflectionpressure gageshock tube history

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics at specific universities (01A73) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05)

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• Interaction of Shock Waves
• Mutual Reflection of Two Shock Waves of Arbitrary Strengths
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• The Mach Reflection of Shock Waves at Nearly Glancing Incidence
• Turbulent Structure of Gaseous Detonation

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• In memoriam Professor A. G. Gaydon F.R.S. (1911--2004)
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