Advanced Hypersonic Test Facilities (Hardcover)

Hypersonic Ground Test Requirements; Principles of Hypersonic Test Facility Development; NASA's HYPULSE Facility at GASL; The LENS I and II Hypervelocity Tunnels and Application to Hypersonic Vehicle Testing Under Fully Duplicated Flight Conditions; The U-12 Large Shock Tube; Detonation-Driven Shock Tubes and Tunnels; Aerothermodynamics Research in the DLR High Enthalpy Shock Tunnel HEG; Characteristics of the HIEST and its Applicability for Hypersonic Aerothermodynamic and Scramjet Research; Piston Gasdynamic Units with Multicascade Compression; Arc-Heated Facilities; The SCIROCCO 70-MW Plasma Wind Tunnel; Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Unit; Arc-Heated Facilities (LBK) as a Tool to Study Aerothermodynamic Problems of Reentry Vehicles; The NASA Langley Research Center 8-ft High Temperature Tunnel; NASA Glenn Research Center's Hypersonic Tunnel Facility; The ONERA F4 High-Enthalpy Wind Tunnel; The AEDC Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9; A Hypersonic Ground-Test Facility Using Magnetic Levitation and Electromagnetic Propulsion; Recent Increases in Hypersonic Test Capabilities at the Holloman High Speed Test Track and Design of a Magnetically Levitated Test Track Capability; Increased Launching Capabilities at AEDC's Range/Track G; A New Mach 8-15 True Temperature Test Facility Concept to Meet the U.S. Shortfall in Hypersonic Test Capability; New-Generation Hypersonic Adiabatic Compression Facilities with Pressure Multipliers