SEMINAR - October 1st, 2013 (9:30 AM)

By Guerric de Crombrugghe
PhD student at the Centre for Hypersonics, The University of Queensland

The Centre for Hypersonics at the University of Queensland is internationally renowned for excellence and innovation in hypersonic aerodynamics research. Its activities range cover experimentation, with the development and operation of world-class hypervelocity test facilities as well as advanced instrumentation and optical diagnostics, flight testing, with scramjet engines and rockets, and computational fluid dynamics. Among its facilities, the X2 and X3 super-orbital expansion tubes are used to duplicate atmospheric entry flows for different types of atmosphere such as the Earth, Mars, Titan, or the gas giants. This talk will first shortly describe the Centre for Hypersonics and its activities, introduce the X2 wind tunnel, and finally expose the efforts currently made to duplicate Venus atmospheric entry flows.

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