Temperature is tough to measure, especially in shock compression experiments. A big challenge is having to account for thermal transport—the flow of energy in the form of heat. "We need better ...

High-temperature shock (HTS) is an emerging synthesis method with kinetics-dominated non-equilibrium characteristics, which can achieve an ultrafast heating/cooling rate of ~10 5 K/s and a peak ...

THE sodium-line reversal method of measuring temperature, commonly used for flames 1, has been adapted to a study of the temperature distribution behind shock waves in a conventional shock tube. In ...