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.
Please peruse our website and learn about our personnel, publications, projects and tools.
Sincerely,
Professor Riccardo Bonazza, PI
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
Contact Information
Mailing Address:
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Wisconsin Shock Tube Laboratory, attn. Dr. Bonazza
University of Wisconsin – Madison
1500 Engineering Dr.
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 265-2337
(608) 263-4499
bonazza@engr.wisc.edu