From Henri K The research and development phase of Hypersonic jet is coming to and end after 10 yrs and 1.8 Billion dollar
It has advance greatly the fundamental science of Hypersonic flight and control and create a rich body of patent, material,aerodynamic,propulsion, technical demonstrator boost glide DZF.
An impressive achievement. I have debate with Iron Man about China Hypersonic R&D . It is definitely very advanced stage! no less so than US
They also developed models and associated simulation methods, and mastered high-precision aerodynamic and thermal test methods.
After nearly 10 years of development,
, which has the objective of addressing the fundamental scientific issues around the "
hypersonic vehicles manoeuvrable long range, moving between 30 and 70 km altitude ".
Laser scattering of burning nanoparticles Scramjet (Source: NSFC)
Started in April 2007, this program has already financed a total of 173 subjects, 26 of them qualified major and 5 strategic, with a total budget of 190 million Yuan.
These projects aim to achieve concrete results in aerodynamics, advanced propulsion, structure and ultra-light materials, prediction of the thermal environment and its protection, as well as the intelligent and autonomous control of hypersonic gear.
Researchers from some thirty different teams have published more than 2,200 theses listed in SCI and EI, filed 270 patents, and presented some of the results of their research 150 times before their international colleagues.
Please note that we regularly find some of the names associated with them weapons Chinese hypersonic projects, such as the craft Boost-Glide DF-ZF , or the Sramjet propelled vehicles, which have gradually emerged from Of 2012.
The NSFC communiqué indicates that the program has achieved significant and innovative results in the following areas:
- With the new theories in complex hypersonic flow, Chinese scholars have deepened their understanding of the multi-physical effects in the issue. They also developed models and associated simulation methods, and mastered high-precision aerodynamic and thermal test methods.
Testing of ablative materials (Source: NSFC)
- New methods for designing the air intake of hypersonic devices have been developed which have led to a better understanding of the hypersonic combustion mechanism and to the development of methods to control it effectively and stably. The research also filled the gaps in specific propellant, and improved the ability to integrate the propulsion with the fuselage.
- The new concepts and methods for the fine control of hypersonic devices have been applied successfully in industrial projects. Flight dynamics modeling was established, as were the self-adaptive active flight control methods and the air-thermo-elastic vibration control methods.
Based on my monitoring of this program in recent years, a chronological overview can be created over the period 2007-2013. Data on the capitalization phase of the program between 2014 and 2015 are not yet available.
Synopsis of NSFC's "空间 飞行器 飞行器 飞行器 的 基础 问题 programme" program (Source: East Pendulum)
The interest of this fundamental research program lies in the fact that it has made it possible to train some thirty teams of young researchers in the field of Near Space and in hypersonics. These researchers, both academic and industrial, have built a solid scientific framework to support concrete industrial projects, some of which, if not the majority, are of a military nature.
Tests in the hypersonic blower JF-12 of the IMECH Institute
Thus, the first Chinese scramjet machine with axisymmetric configuration, developed by the aerospace group CASIC, realized its inaugural flight in 2012 and reached a speed higher than Mach 5, at an altitude of more than 20 km.
The DF-ZF military hypersonic glider project, which has already completed seven successful flights between 2014 and 2016, may also have benefited from some of the results of this NSFC program. It is the same for another hypersonic drone project, developed this time by the aerospace company AVIC (see our article "
").
The NSFC, which was chaired by the Chinese Prime Minister, was set up in February 1986 with the aim of developing the system for distributing funds for research and development in the country.
Since 2010, this foundation devotes more than 10 billion yuan (~ 1.3 billion euros) each year to finance the various projects in all scientific fields. The sum reached a new record in 2016 with more than 19 billion Yuan spent in a single year.
With 190 million Yuan funded over 10 years, this fundamental R & D program around Near Space hypersonic devices is probably only a grain of sand in the tip of the iceberg. In this conquest of speed and altitude already launched between the great powers of the world, China's strategic objectives to develop these new vectors of ultra-rapid projection, the scientific and industrial framework that have been set up to support the various Developments, and how these projects are funded and carried out so far, are all worthy of further exploration.
To be continued.
Henri K.
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