TABLE AND CHARTS OF EQUILIBRIUM NORMAL-SHOCK AND SHOCK-TUBE PROPERTIES FOR PURE CARBON DIOXIDE WITH VELOCITIES FROM 1 TO 16 km/sec

摘要

The shock tube has been widely used to generate high-velocity flows for research in chemical kinetics and radiation gas dynamics. An attractive capability of the shock tube is that real-gas conditions in the region behind a detached bow shock of an entry vehicle can be simulated for arbitrary test gases. During the last decade or so, this capability was utilized as interest expanded from Earth entry probes to Martian probes. In the early design of Martian probes, a number of atmospheric models were proposed (ref. 1), which included a range of thermodynamic properties and composition.