Experimental Facilities
SNU Hypersonic Shock Tunnel (SHyST)
High Mach, High enthalpy, High Reynolds shock tunnel
Driver Tube : Length 3000mm / Dia. 100mm / Maximum Pressure 300bar
Driven Tube : Length 8200mm / Dia. 100mm
Nozzle : Mach ~6.8 / Throat Dia. 32mm / Exit Dia. 340mm / Length 1400mm
Test Section : Length 2400mm / Dia. 1000mm / Pressure 20Pa
Schlieren visualization & BOS measurement
Planar Laser Scattering (PLS) / Rayleigh Scattering (RS)
Temperature Sensitive Paint (TSP)
Spectral Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (SPOD)
Shock interaction / Boundary layer transition
Reddy Shock Tunnel
Small-scale & educational-purpose Hypersonic shock tunnel
Driver Tube : Length 400mm / Dia. 30mm
Driven Tube : Length 600mm / Dia. 30mm
Nozzle : Mach 6.3 / Throat Dia. 9.24mm / Exit Dia. 73.6mm / Length 159.5mm
Test Section : Length 220mm / Depth 170mm / Height 170mm
Both free-piston & piston–driven modes are available
Test models can be 3D printable
2 pressure sensors in driven tube using NI DAQ system
Schlieren visualization & BOS measurement
* Students interested in hypersonic flow experiment are welcome to contact Prof. Lee for using Reddy Shock Tunnel.
