Hypersonic

Hypersonic flight is generally considered greater than Mach 5 and represents an important frontier in aircraft capabilities. Difficulties arise because hypersonic flow differs from supersonic and subsonic flow, driving a need for different hypersonic aircraft configurations, as …

In the past two decades, there has been a renewed and sustained effort devoted to modeling the dynamics of air-breathing hypersonic vehicles, for both simulation and control design purposes. The highly nonlinear characteristics of flight dynamics in hypersonic regimes and the co…