For various technical reasons, no fully reusable launch vehicle has ever been successfully constructed or operated. Nonetheless, a range of reusable hypersonic vehicles is currently …

To assess the aerothermodynamic performance of a vehicle / body through the spectrum of rarefied to continuum conditions. The solution has to be engineering-friendly. Makes …

The Centre for Future Air-Space Transportation Technology (cFASTT) is a research centre at the University of Strathclyde that was established in 2010 with the intent of revolutionising future …

2018年2月11日 · The improved version of FOSTRAD has been used to evaluate the aerodynamics characteristic of different space vehicles and objects: STS orbiter, Orion CEV, …

The CFASTT-1 Reusable Launch Vehicle shown during a simulated re-entry, travelling at Mach 24 and an altitude of 115 km. The shock-wave structure and thermal loads illustrated in this …

in Figure 1b designed in the Centre for Future Air-Space Transportation Technology (cFASTT) at the University of Strathclyde, flying at cruise-altitudes around ten times higher than today’s …

Figure 1: The CFASTT-1 Reusable Launch Vehicle during ground-hold operations. (Original graphic by Adrian Mann.) II. System Model Successful multi-disciplinary design of future trans …

New bridging functions, based on logistic regression model, aiming at providing a better estimate of aerodynamic outputs in the transitional flow regime have been introduced. The routines …

Nominal re-entry trajectory of the CFASTT-1 vehicle. Based on flight experience from the Space Shuttle programme, it is well known that misprediction of the effects of boundary layer transition...

This paper outlines the application of the aforementioned design tool to the un-powered re-entry phase of a complex geometry, named cFASTT-1, which is representative of future winged …