The Gas Dynamics Lab at Princeton University is currently taking part in transition studies on elliptic cone models. Working with the Applied Physics Group, some of the most recent laser diagnostics ...

The study of hypersonic boundary layer transition and instability encompasses the complex processes by which a thin, near-wall flow region shifts from a smooth, laminar state to a highly chaotic, ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 106, Section 1: JOURNAL OF AEROSPACE (1997), pp. 1478-1491 (14 pages) Temperature Sensitive Paint (TSP) technology coupled with the Reynolds number capability of modern wind ...

A group of University of Arizona engineering faculty members is working together to advance research into vehicles moving five times faster than the speed of sound. Over the course of 2020, faculty ...

The aim is to make aviation in Europe climate-neutral by 2050. An important part of this is reducing the drag of future aircraft, with the wings playing a major role. The wings not only generate the ...

There is no clearly defined Mach number that marks the boundary between supersonic and hypersonic flight. But Mach 5 is generally taken by aerospace engineers to be where hypersonic speed begins. The ...

Turbulence makes many people uneasy or downright queasy. And it's given researchers a headache, too. Mathematicians have been trying for a century or more to understand the turbulence that arises when ...

Chris James receives funding from the University of Queensland, the Australian Research Council, and the U.S. Office of Naval Research.. The BOLT II hypersonic flight experiment will launch tonight ...