Vehicle Integrated Inward Turning Air Breathing Engines

The overall objective of this proposal is to develop a tool that integrates and optimizes the design of internal scramjet engine flowlines with external aerodynamic designs of hypersonic vehicles. The design of non-optimal, manual iteration engine-integrated inward turning scramjets with waverider vehicle shapes has already proven to be a powerful design technique. This SBIR proposal will initiate a program to further develop the flow surfaces so that a systems level optimization may be performed on the engine and vehicle flow surfaces together with the utilization of a commercial optimizer package.