Researchers at the Urbana-Champaign have unlocked new insights into the turbulent behavior of hypersonic flows by using advanced 3D simulations. Leveraging supercomputing power and custom-built ...

Surprising results from hypersonic air flow simulations could help design stronger, faster and more durable supersonic ...

Lihong V. Wang explaining how Mach cones are formed and why photonic Mach cones are difficult to record. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 20, 2017, issue of Science ...

Using powerful supercomputers and cutting-edge software, scientists have conducted the first-ever fully 3D simulations of ...

These discoveries could transform the design of ultra-fast vehicles. Researchers at the University of Illinois used supercomputers to model flows at Mach 16 around cones. Their simulations revealed ...

At Mach 3.2, with the spike fully aft, the air-stream-capture area has increased by 112 percent and the throat area has shrunk by 54 percent. The cone shape of the spike also incrementally reduces ...

Filtered Rayleigh Scattering (FRS) has been used to image turbulent structure on flat-plate boundary layers and is now being applied to studies of the transitional boundary layer over elliptic cones ...

Karpuzcu said they observed the breaks near the tip of the cone, and with a shock wave near where the air molecules were closer together, making them more viscous and at Mach 16. "As you increase ...