"Hypersonic Vehicles: Applications, Recent Advances, and Perspectives" ed. by Giuseppe Pezzella, Antonio Viviani

This book contains valuable contributions that focus on various design issues related to hypersonic aircraft.

Some sixty years after the experimental flights of the North American X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft, sustained hypervelocity travel is still the next frontier in high-speed transportation. Today, there is much excitement and interest regarding hypersonic vehicles. In fact, many aerospace agencies, large industries, and several start-ups are involved in design activities and experimental campaigns both in wind tunnels and in-flight with full-scale experimental flying test beds and prototypes to make hypersonic travel almost as easy and convenient as airliner travel. Achieving this goal will radically revolutionize the future of civil transportation.

Contents
1. The Challenge to Fly Faster and Higher
2. Investigation of Hypersonic Conic Flows Generated by Magnetoplasma Light-Gas Gun Equipped with Laval Nozzle
3. Experimental Analysis of Waverider Lift-to-Drag Ratio Measurements in Rarefied and Supersonic Regime
4. Plasma Preheating Technology for Ablation Studies of Hypersonic Reentry Vehicles
5. Aero Heating Optimization of a Hypersonic Thermochemical Non-Equilibrium Flow around Blunt Body by Application of Opposing Jet and Blunt Spike
6. Lifting Entry Analysis for Manned Mars Exploration Missions

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