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 being...

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 collaboration easier. There is a paucity of hypersonic codes available to academic researchers/students. Makes collaboration easier.

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 air and space travel. The aim of cFASTT is to perform the dedicated long-term planning and research that is required to create the space access and air ...

Feb 11, 2018 · The improved version of FOSTRAD has been used to evaluate the aerodynamics characteristic of different space vehicles and objects: STS orbiter, Orion CEV, Intermediate Experimental Vehicle, cFASTT-1 spaceplane, Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE), and a simple sphere.

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 figure...

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 aircraft. However, many scientific and technological hurdles remain to be cleared for turning this future into a reality.

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-atmospheric vehicles will require the development of a system design platform that is itself highly optimized and specialized for the modelling, design and

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 have been validated on different test cases, such as: spheres, …

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-hypersonic vehicle configurations. In the present work, a trajectory optimiser has been coupled with a reduced-order aero-thermodynamic model dubbed HyFlow.