Abstract
An investigation was made of the reflection of planar shock waves from cones. 86 cones, the half apex angle of which varied from 10° to 52° at every 0.5°, were installed in a 60 mm×150 mm diaphragmless shock tube equipped with holographic interferometry. The diaphragmless shock tube had a high degree of reproducibility with which the scatter of shock wave Mach number was within ±0.25% for shock wave Mach number ranging from 1.16 to approximately 2.0. The reflection of shock waves over cones was visualized using double exposure holographic interferometry. Whitham's geometrical shock wave dynamics was used to analyse the motion of Mach stems over cones. It is found that for relatively smaller apex angles of cones trajectory angles of resulting irregular reflections coincide with the so-called glancing incidence angles and their Mach stems appear to be continuously curved from its intersection point with the incident shock wave, which shows the chractericstic of von Neumann reflection. The domain of the existence of the von Neumann reflection was analytically obtained and was found to be broadened much more widely than that of two-dimensional reflections of shock waves over wedges.
Key words
Conical flow Diaphragmless shock tube Holographic interferometry Mach reflectionPreview
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