Abstract: Methods based on fundamental thermodynamic principles and the notion of statistical probability have been used to estimate the point of instability and the lower critical Reynolds number for a ...

Abstract: This paper reports upon an experimental investigation in which a heat-transfer instrument was designed, built, and applied in a rarefaction wave tube. An analysis of the heat-transfer instrument ...

Abstract: If a gas is permitted to expand freely from a vessel of constant volume, the gas remaining in the vessel is generally considered to undergo reversible adiabatic expansion. For such a case, ...

Abstract: Experiments were conducted on the effects of the shift of the gas mass from the high-pressure to the low-pressure sides of a divided vessel, with communication by (a) bursting diaphragm and ...

Abstract: This paper reports upon an experimental investigation of gas dynamic rarefaction waves in rarefaction wave tubes to determine effects of large length to diameter ratios. A fitted equation is ...