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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2023
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
University of Notre Dame Du Lac, South Bend, IN (US);
Mark Edward Noftz, Villa Park, IL (US);
Joseph Stephen Jewell, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Andrew James Shuck, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Jonathan Poggie, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Andrew Nixon Bustard, South Bend, IN (US);
Thomas James Juliano, Granger, IN (US);
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
University of Notre Dame Du Lac, South Bend, IN (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods capable for use in the development of high-speed, shape-transitioning, inward-turning inlets for air-breathing hypersonic vehicles, and inlets formed thereby. The systems and methods preferably provide for designing high-speed inlets for air-breathing hypersonic vehicles, wherein unique solutions are defined in each osculating plane of the inlet. Such systems and methods optionally provide an optimization process for tuning the post throat-shock Mach number of the inlet, and/or designs a shock-capture surface using a parallel-streamlines methodology, and/or a double cowl-lip geometry to allow flow to spill overboard.