Electric Arc Shock Tube (EAST)
Description
The Ames Electric Arc Shock Tube (EAST) Facility is the only shock tube in the U.S. capable of simulating shock-heated gas environments at the very high enthalpies encountered by atmospheric entry vehicles. The facility generates conditions for measurements of spectrally resolved radiance and kinetics of shock-heated gases from the vacuum ultraviolet through mid-infrared. The EAST program provides ground-based hyperthermal and hypervelocity environments in support of the nation’s research and development activities in thermal protection materials, aerothermodynamics, vehicle structures, and hypersonic propulsion and flight.
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https://data.nasa.gov/docs/datasets/aerothermodynamics/EAST/index.html |
Tags
- simulator
- tube
- electric
- thermophysics
- east
- arc
- electric-arc-shock-tube
- shot-velocity
- aerothermodynamics
- shock
- arcjet
- thermodynamics