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Recent experiments on small shock tubes, at normal or reduced pressure, have revealed interesting phenomena. For example, Brouillette [1], using pressure instrumentation, has examined the operation of a 5.3 mm shock tube at initial pressures down to 1 mBar for diaphragm pressure ratios up to 105 and found a decrease in shock strength with decreasing scaling parameter ReD/L for a given diaphragm pressure ratio. Garen et al. [2], with an atmospheric 1 mm shock tube that used a quick opening valve instead of diaphragm, reached the same conclusions using laser differential interferometry observations.
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Brouillette, M., Giordano, G., Mirshekari, G., Hébert, C., Parisse, J.D., Perrier, P. (2012). Flow Phenomena in Microscale Shock Tubes. In: Kontis, K. (eds) 28th International Symposium on Shock Waves. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25688-2_36
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