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Ray Stalker Memorial Lecture: Legacy at T5

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Ray Stalker’s invention of the free piston driver concept as uniquely suited to the study of high-enthalpy nonequilibrium phenomenon has resulted in a worldwide legacy of facilities such as the T1–T4 tunnels in Australia, HEG in Germany, T5 at Caltech, and HIEST at JAXA, Kakuda, Japan. In this talk, I will discuss recent and ongoing research in our group at Caltech that has focused on hypervelocity flows in which gas dynamics and thermochemistry are tightly coupled. To this end, we perform experiments in two impulse facilities which build on Ray Stalker’s legacy, including the T5 reflected shock tunnel and the Hypervelocity Expansion Tube facility.

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Acknowledgments

The construction of T5 was funded by the National Aerospace Plane Program and by Caltech. The construction of the HET and the work on SBLI was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Funding for numerous other research projects has been provided by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Office of Naval Research, and NASA. Industrial users included Rocketdyne, Raytheon, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Hitachi, and MetroLaser. The author gratefully acknowledges the contributions of Prof. Hans Hornung and Dr. Andrew Knisely to this paper.

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  1. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

    J. M. Austin

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  1. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Akihiro Sasoh

  2. Department of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan

    Toshiyuki Aoki

  3. Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    Masahide Katayama

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Austin, J.M. (2019). Ray Stalker Memorial Lecture: Legacy at T5. In: Sasoh, A., Aoki, T., Katayama, M. (eds) 31st International Symposium on Shock Waves 1. ISSW 2017. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91020-8_3

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