Ram Accelerators

Lecture Notes.- The Ram Accelerator: Overview and State of the Art.- Ram Accelerator Performance Modeling.- Real Gas Effects in Ram Accelerator Propellant Mixtures: Theoretical Concepts and Applied Thermo chemical Codes.- Facilities and Experiments.- High Acceleration Experiments Using a Multi-stage Ram Accelerator.- RAMAC in Subdetonative Propulsion Mode: State of the ISL Studies.- Presentation of the Rail Tube Version II of ISL's RAMAC.- The Behaviour of Fin-Guided Projectiles Superdetonative Accelerated in ISL's RAMAC.- High Performance Ram Accelerator Research.- Ignition Study for Low Pressure Combustible Mixture in a Ram Accelerator.- Thermally Choked Operation in a 25-mm-Bore Ram Accelerator.- 37-mm-Bore Ram Accelerator of CARDC.- Performance Prediction.- Real Gas Effects on Thermally Choked Ram Accelerator Performance.- Numerical Investigation on Subdetonative Mode Ramjet-in-Tube.- On the Optimization of Thermally-Choked Ram Accelerator Systems.- Prediction of Surface Heating of a Projectile Flying in RAMAC 30 of ISL.- Ram Accelerator Optimization and Use of Hydrogen Core to Increase Projectile Velocity.- Analysis and Experimental Results of a Fin-Stabilized Subcaliber Projectile with a Blunt Step in the External Propulsion Accelerator.- Starting Processes.- Effects of Launch Tube Shock Dynamics on Initiation of Ram Accelerator Operation.- Overview of the Subdetonative Ram Accelerator Starting Process.- Diaphragm Rupturing Processes by a Ram Accelerator Projectile.- Numerical Simulation of the Unsteady Processes in Starting Period of Ram Accelerator.- RAMAC 90: Detonation Initiation of Insensitive Dense Methane-Based Mixtures by Normal Shock Waves.- Hypersonic Blunt Body in Chemically Reacting Flows.- Comparison of Numerical Simulations and PLIF ImagingResults of Hypersonic Inert and Reactive Flows Around Blunt Projectiles.- Comparisons of Numerical Methods for the Analysis of Unsteady Shock-Induced Combustion.- On the Detonation Initiation by a Supersonic Sphere.- Experimental Observation of Oblique Detonation Waves Around Hypersonic Free Projectiles.- Numerical Prediction of Envelope Oscillation Phenomena of Shock-Induced Combustion.- Diagnostics.- Experimental Investigation of Ram Accelerator Flow Fields and Combustion Kinetics.- Accelerating Hydrogen/Air Mixtures to Superdetonative Speeds Using an Expansion Tube.- Computational Fluid Dynamics.- Numerical Simulations of Unsteady Ram Accelerator Flow Phenomena.- Numerical Investigation of Ram Accelerator Flow Field in Expansion Tube.- CFD Computations of Steady and Non-reactive Flow Around Fin-Guided Ram Projectiles.- Ignition of a Reactive Gas by Focusing of a Shock Wave.