Mach 10 Hydrogen fuelled scramjet development

安全和经济地进入太空是21世纪世纪的一项重大技术挑战。 吸气式发动机，特别是超燃冲压发动机提供了迎接这一挑战的潜力。 该项目的目的是加深对工程和物理原理的理解，这些原理决定了超高速（> 3公里/秒）运行的一类超燃冲压发动机的性能。 将探索新的和创新的想法，这将首次提供必要的理解，以便对这种方法的成本效益进行有根据的预测，并提供开发可以在马赫数10下工作的发动机的蓝图。

Safe and economic access to space is a major technological challenge of the 21st century. Airbreathing engines, in particular, scramjets offer the potential to meet this challenge. The project aims to develop an understanding of the engineering and physical principals that determines the performance of a class of scramjet operating at hypervelocity speeds (>3km/s). Novel and innovative ideas will be explored which for the first time will provide the understandings necessary to make well founded predictions of the cost effectiveness of this approach, as well as provide the blue print to develop an engine which can operate at Mach 10.