Hypersonic Flight Testing - STO AVT-234

Monday 24 March 2014 - Thursday 27 March 2014

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Hypersonic flight experiments benefit from the recent technology developments in materials, computational power, miniaturisation, etc. that have significantly reduced the level of cost and resources required for such testing. They appear  more and more attractive as a research activity, in association with wind tunnel and CFD activities.

Hypersonic Flight TestingThis recent trend can be illustrated by the increased number of hypersonic research programs: X-51, HIFiRE, SHEFFEX, SCRAMSPACE, EXPERT, IXV, LEA, USV, etc. Translating a laboratory experiment into the sky imposes severe design constraints on the payload, typically affecting its environmental conditions (pressure, temperature, acceleration, etc.), packaging and resources (mass, energy & data). This  special course aims at  reviewing the recent hypersonic flight research programs, address the fundamental differences between ground and in-sky testing, report on  the different mission design methodologies and the constraints associated with the realities of hypersonic flights.

More information about the STO Activity AVT-234: http://www.cso.nato.int/activities.aspx.


Location : von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Sint-Genesius-Rode (near Brussels), Belgium