The thermodynamic properties of a combustible propellant gas, after it has been processed
by a ram accelerator propulsive mode, are related by a “ram accelerator Hugoniot” …

The ram accelerator was developed at the University of Washington in the late 20th century
as a mass driver system for the purpose of accelerating projectiles to orbital velocities. The …

The baffled-tube ram accelerator is an innovation in hypervelocity launch technology that
allows the acceleration of axisymmetric projectiles in the velocity range of 500 to 3000 …

The baffled tube ram accelerator is a hypervelocity mass driver theoretically capable of
accelerating axisymmetric projectiles up to 3 km/s. Researchers at the UW have investigated …

HE Ram Accelerator (also known as RAMAC) is an efficient hypersonic launching
equipment, which combines the adequate knowledge of aerodynamics, thermo-dynamics …

The ram accelerator is a novel chemical propulsion device capable of accelerating
projectiles up to orbital velocities. It utilizes a ramjet-like propulsive cycle, where a projectile …

The effect of confinement on the initiation of detonation waves by supersonic projectiles is
investigated. For experiments in a large diameter detonation chamber, the projectile bow …

The system of a 25-mm-bore ram accelerator (RAMAC25) was installed at Shock Wave
Research Center, Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University. The total length of the ram …

Thorough investigations have been conducted so far at ISL on the sensitivity to detonation of
dense gaseous explosive mixtures based on detonation tube experiments. Upper …

Investigations are conducted at ISL on new hypervelocity launchers to fulfill requirements in
different fields of ballistics such as launching dynamics, aeroballistics, terminal ballistics …