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.