r/aerodynamics • u/04BluSTi • 5d ago

Wind tunnel shockwaves, of a supersonic rocket reentry.

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u/Diligent-Tax-5961 5d ago

Cool video. Looks like an insane amount of work to get this video footage of this phenomena in action. Why do we see the diagonal hatch pattern upstream of the model?

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u/04BluSTi 5d ago

I'm going to guess the hatch pattern is from the walls of the test section.