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 ...

A groundbreaking simulation study led by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has uncovered never-before-seen flow instabilities around hypersonic vehicles traveling at Mach 16, ...

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 ...

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 ...