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Theoretical and experimental study of background gas penetration into underexpanded free jets
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Theoretical and experimental study of background gas penetration into underexpanded free jets

J. W. Brook, B. B. Hamel and E. P. Muntz
The Physics of fluids (1958), v 18(5), pp 517-528
May 1975

Abstract

The mechanisms of penetration of single and multicomponent background gases into a free jet flowing into a stationary background are examined from theoretical and experimental points of view. The theoretical treatment is based on the asymptotic theory developed by Brook and Hamel for a spherically symmetric source flow expanding into a stationary rarefied atmosphere. Agreement between theory and experiment is reasonable; certain points of disagreement are identified for future study.

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