Walker Bleakney and the development of the shock tube at Princeton

DOI10.1007/BF02434008zbMATH Open0862.01032MaRDI QIDQ1815758FDOQ1815758

R. J. Emrich

Publication date: 28 May 1997

Published in: Shock Waves (Search for Journal in Brave)

Recommendations

• In memoriam Professor A. G. Gaydon F.R.S. (1911--2004)
• Introduction
• On the formation of Friedlander waves in a compressed-gas-driven shock tube
• August Toepler -- the first who visualized shock waves

zbMATH Keywords

flow visualizationblast waveMach reflectioninterferometryBleakneypressure gageshock tube history

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cites Work

• Turbulent Structure of Gaseous Detonation
• On some algebraical properties of operator rings
• Interaction of Shock Waves
• Mutual Reflection of Two Shock Waves of Arbitrary Strengths
• The Mach Reflection of Shock Waves at Nearly Glancing Incidence

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• August Toepler -- the first who visualized shock waves

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