ordertodeterminethecriticalflowvelocityofhighvelocityflowtubewhichislongandthin,therebyРavoidingvibrationandnoisecausedbyinstability,theforcesactingonanunitbodymodeltakenfromtheflowtubeРareanalyzedandthedeterminateequationsoftheproblemareformulated.AccordingtofourtypicalboundaryconРstraintconditions,theminimumtheoreticalinstablecriticalflowvelocityofhighvelocityflowtubeisdiscussed.UnРderthreetypesoftypicalconstraints,theminimumtheoreticalcriticalflowvelocitiesofhighvelocityflowtubesbeРingmadeofsixdifferentmaterialsarecalculated.ThecomputationmethodgivenherehassomereferencevaluetoРthedesignanduseofhighvelocityflowtube.РРKeywords:instabilityofflowtube;differentconstraint;mechanicalanalysis;criticalvelocityР (责任编辑 苏晓东、戴宝华)