| TURBULENT WAKE GAS ANALYZER PROGRAM. (2005) | |||||||||
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| The report presents a description of the design and operation of the turbulent wake gas analyzer, a system built to extract and analyze gas samples from the wake of a ballistic missile. When a projectile is fired past the sampling probe inlet of the system, the short-lived ions and neutral molecules in the turbulent wake of the missile are ingested by the probe and transformed into a molecular beam. This beam enters a time-of-flight mass spectrometer where a complete time history analysis of the growth and decay of the short-lived wake products is performed. (Author). Prepared in cooperation with Bendix Corp., Southfield, Mich., Rept. no. BRL-4859. | |||||||||
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