Hello and welcome to the largest vertical shock tube facility. We have been operating the facility for 30 years with a variety of experimental campaigns. The most common type of study is shock-induced turbulent mixing at an interface between two different gases.
The WiSTL website is currently getting an overhaul! Please pardon our dust while under construction.
Motivation and Facility
- Introduction to the RM instability
- Diagnostics
- Facility Description
- Facility Images
- Participation in HEDSA
Projects, Active
Shock-induced ignition with subsequent turbulent mixing
Projects, Inactive
- Shocked bubble experiments and computations
- Membraneless interface using oscillating pistons
- Magnetorheological Fluid
- Shocked Water Layer
- Membraneless interface using retractable plate
- Shock Cylinder Interactions
Tools
- Gas Dynamics Calculator
- Laser Sheet Optics Setup
- Dimensionless Numbers and Constants
- Fluid Properties
- Gas Dynamics x-t Diagram
- Rayleigh-Taylor Linear Theory Notes
Three Story Vertical
Shock Tube