Fluid-thermal-structural interactions on high-speed aerospace vehicles

协和式飞机退役16年后，随着新型超音速公务机和小型客机以及高超音速运输和可重复使用的太空发射系统的发展，高速商业飞行再次兴起。这些轻型车辆的稳健和高效设计必须解决气动加热问题及其对结构性能和寿命的影响。该项目将设计并进行首次同类实验，再现这些飞机和火箭所经历的复杂的流体-热-结构相互作用。然后，我们将使用这些测量来评估、验证和改进当前最先进的设计模拟和建模方法。

Sixteen years after the retirement of Concorde, high-speed commercial flight is once again on the rise with the development of new supersonic business jets and small airliners as well as hypersonic transport and reusable space launch systems. Robust and efficient designs for these light-weight vehicles must address the problem of aerodynamic heating and its effect on structural performance and lifing. This project will design and perform first-of-kind experiments that reproduce the complex fluid-thermal-structural interactions representative of those experienced by these aircraft and rockets. We will then use these measurements to assess, validate and improve the current state-of-the-art of simulation and modelling approaches for design.