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 ...

D simulations reveal unexpected instabilities in hypersonic flows. These discoveries could transform the design of ultra-fast vehicles. Researchers at the University of Illinois ...

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 ...

At Mach 16, they observed breaks in the flow within the shock layers, near the cone's tip, where air molecules become more viscous. Interestingly, these breaks were absent at Mach 6, highlighting ...