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Detonation Tube

2025

Highlights
  • 7 m × 200 mm closed steel tube
  • Seven-spool design built as five plus a silencer — the floor cannot take the full length
  • 24 sensors at six stations: 12 piezoelectric pressure (PT) and 12 photodiode (PDT), paired top and bottom
  • Sampled at 51.2 kHz for pressure, 100 kHz for light

Hydrogen and air fill the first spool only, held in by a balloon across the tube.