A method of designing a hypersonic vehicle includes selecting a shock shape; tracing a leading edge along the shock shape; selecting a base plane defining endpoints of the leading edge and rearwardly displaced from a front of the leading edge; and tracing stream surfaces back from the leading edge along the shock to the base plane in order to define an upper surface and a lower surface, wherein the upper and lower surfaces and base plane enclose a volume representing internal volume of the hypersonic vehicle. The lower stream surface is controllably morphable.
Hypersonic Waverider Stream Surface Actuation for Variable Design Point Operation
2019-04-18
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
Hypersonic waverider stream surface actuation for variable design point operation
European Patent Office | 2022
|HYPERSONIC WAVERIDER STREAM SURFACE ACTUATION FOR VARIABLE DESIGN POINT OPERATION (AIAA 2016-4706)
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2016
|Interactive design of hypersonic waverider geometries
AIAA | 1991
|Hypersonic speed aircraft osculating curved surface waverider design method
European Patent Office | 2015
|