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The paper presents the results of an investigation on the motion of a spherical particle in a shock tube flow. A shock tube facility was used for studying the acceleration of a sphere by an incident shock wave. Using different optical methods and performing experiments in two different shock tubes, the trajectory and velocity of a spherical particle were measured. Based upon these results and simple one-dimensional calculations, the drag coefficient of a sphere and shading effect of sphere interaction with a shock tube flow were studied.
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Britan, A., Elperin, T., Igra, O. et al. Acceleration of a sphere behind planar shock waves. Experiments in Fluids 20, 84–90 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01061585
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01061585