Explore the many aspects of Hypersonics and how it differs from flights at lower speeds. Learn about aerodynamics under extreme conditions of pressure and temperature. Understand how to estimate lift and drag, thermodynamic properties, and heating of hypersonic vehicles. Examine what conditions arise in missile and lifting body designs in hypersonic flight.

What you will learn:

• Shock relations from the perspective of an infinite Mach number limit
• Local surface inclination methods
• Approximate and exact methods for hypersonic inviscid flows
• Transport in hypersonic flows, including approximate methods for estimating skin friction and heat transfer rates
• Design of waveriders
• Advanced topics in hypersonic flow effects including shock-shock and shock-boundary layer interactions
• Self-similar flows, including the Noh problem and Sedov Blast wave problem
• Trajectory analysis
• Hypersonic similarity rules
• Newtonian theory
• Optimum Shapes
• Hypersonic boundary layer

Earn 2.1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).