shock tunnel

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shock tunnel [′shäk ‚tən·əl]

(engineering)

A hypervelocity wind tunnel in which a shock wave generated in a shock tube ruptures a second diaphragm in the throat of a nozzle at the end of the tube, and gases emerge from the nozzle into a vacuum tank with Mach numbers of 6 to 25.

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