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Improvement of pump tubes for gas guns and shock tube driversIn a pump tube, a gas is mechanically compressed, producing very high pressures and sound speeds. The intensely heated gas produced in such a tube can be used to drive light gas guns and shock tubes. Three concepts are presented that have the potential to allow substantial reductions in the size and mass of the pump tube to be achieved. The first concept involves the use of one or more diaphragms in the pump tube, thus replacing a single compression process by multiple, successive compressions. The second concept involves a radical reduction in the length-to-diameter ratio of the pump tube and the pump tube piston. The third concept involves shock heating of the working gas by high explosives in a cyclindrical geometry reusable device. Preliminary design analyses are performed on all three concepts and they appear to be quite feasible. Reductions in the length and mass of the pump tube by factors up to about 11 and about 7, respectively, are predicted, relative to a benchmark conventional pump tube.
Document ID
19900038236
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Bogdanoff, D. W.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 14, 2013
Publication Date
March 1, 1990
Publication Information
Publication: AIAA Journal
Volume: 28
ISSN: 0001-1452
Subject Category
Fluid Mechanics And Heat Transfer
Accession Number
90A25291
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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