Abstract
The aim of this letter is to present an original experimental technique to study weak shock wave in a minitube. Thus, we designed an apparatus that can be connected to any classical shock tube in order to characterize high speed flows induced by the shock wave transmission in minitubes. We proposed appropriated measurements based on high speed strioscopy coupled with pressure sensors. Two minitube diameters are considered: 1.020±0.010 and 0.480±0.010 mm. We realized preliminary experimental and numerical campaigns with an incident shock wave Mach number at 1.12±0.01. The generation of a microshock wave was observable in the two minitubes. For the smallest minitube, we found an attenuation of the strength of the shock wave with a decrease of 1.8% of the Mach number.
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