In 2020, the United States Department of Defense requested $3.2 billion to fund research and development in hypersonic defense programs for the fiscal year of 2021. The d[...]

The UNC Charlotte hypersonic wind tunnel was designed and made by a team of engineering students in 2019. The wind tunnel is capable of holding 1500 PSI and sending air t[...]

This work introduces a semi-quantitative schlieren (SQS) method which is used to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze complex, unsteady, compressible flows in a small[...]