1. The ideal shock tube theory has been independently developed by many people, starting with Kobes in 1910. The most satisfactory complete presentation is in University of Toronto Institute of Aerophysics Report No. 2 by Glass, Martin, and Patterson (1953). Article J in Vol. VIII ofHigh Speed Aerodynamics and Jet Propulsion, to be published shortly by Princeton University Press also contains a description of the ideal shock tube flow with formulas, graphs, and tables.
2. Attenuation in the Shock Tube
3. R. N. Hollyer, Jr., “A study of attenuation in the shock tube,” University of Michigan Engineering Research Institute (1953).
4. Shock-Tube Studies of Transonic Flow over Wedge Profiles
5. D. Bershader and J. Allport, “On the laminar boundary layer induced by a traveling shock wave,” Princeton Univ. Dept. of Physics Tech. Rept. II–22 (1956).