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Gun tunnels are short duration wind tunnel facilities which have made important contributions to hypersonic flow research for more than half-century. Gun tunnels produce low enthalpy hypersonic flows with durations of several tens of milliseconds. For a capital investment similar to that of a comparably-sized, regular shock tunnel, gun tunnels offer at least an order of magnitude longer flow duration. This makes gun tunnels an attractive option for a wide range of hypersonic aerodynamics research, including the possibility of investigating unsteady aerodynamic effects.

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I am indebted to Richard Morgan, Terry Jones, Terry Cain and Noel Morris for introducing me to the Oxford University Gun Tunnel in 1991.

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Buttsworth, D. (2016). Gun Tunnels. In: Igra, O., Seiler, F. (eds) Experimental Methods of Shock Wave Research. Shock Wave Science and Technology Reference Library, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23745-9_12

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