Hypervelocity Launchers

Part I. Gas Gun

1. Light Gas Gun
Eugene B. Zaretsky

Part II. Hypervelocity Test Facility

2. Ballistic Range
Sen Liu

Part III. Shock Waves in Solids

3. Experimental Methods of Shock Wave Research for Solids
Toshimori Sekine

Part IV. Ram Accelerator

4. The Ram Accelerator: Review of Experimental Research Activities in the U.S.
Adam P. Bruckner, Carl Knowlen

5. Experiments on Supersonic and Superdetonative Combustion at ISL’s Ram Accelerator RAMAC 30
Friedrich Seiler, Günter Smeets, Gunther Patz, Julio Srulijes, Gilbert Mathieu, Berthold Sauerwein, Jean-Luc Striby

6. RAMAC in Subdetonative Propulsion Mode with Fin-Guided Projectile: Design, Modeling, Performance and Scale Effect
Marc Giraud, Pascal Bauer

7. The Ram Accelerator in Subdetonative Propulsion Mode: Analytical and Numerical Modeling and Simulation
Pascal Bauer, Tarek Bengherbia

8. RAMAC25
Akihiro Sasoh

9. Numerical Simulation of Super-Detonative Ram Accelerator; Its Shock-Induced Combustion and Oblique Detonation
Jeong-Yeol Choi, In-Seuck Jeung

10. RAMAC37 Activities at CARDC
Sen Liu, Zhiyong Bai, Hexiang Jian

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