Radiatively driven wind tunnel experiment with a 30 kW electron beam Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • 1999 by Princeton University. Controlled energy addition to a supersonic flow has been demonstrated using a 1 MeV electron beam (e-beam). Within, the duration of the e-beam pulse (500-750 s) the increase in total enthalpy, absorbed power, and change in Mach number with time were measured during the heating process. Time resolved shadowgraph images show a steady transition from the unheated flow to the e-beam heated flow, demonstrating that on the time scale of these experiments a stable flow, with a higher total enthalpy, was achieved with heat addition from an electron beam.

name of conference

  • 37th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

published proceedings

  • 37th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

author list (cited authors)

  • Barker, P., Grinstead, J., Morgan, A., Howard, P., Anderson, B., Miles, R., ... e, a. l.

citation count

  • 5

complete list of authors

  • Barker, P||Grinstead, J||Morgan, A||Howard, P||Anderson, B||Miles, R||Brown, G||Lipinski, R||Reed, K||Pena, G||e, al

publication date

  • January 1999