Hypersonics and Rocketry

UniSQ Hypersonics and Rocketry is home to cutting-edge expertise and Infrastructure, including:

• The longest duration hypersonic wind tunnel in Australia, enabling hypersonic aerodynamics, free-flight, proximal body separation, heat transfer, control, and fluid-structure-interaction experiments that cannot be performed elsewhere. 

Theme projects, include:

• Novel Testing of a Supersonic Airbreathing Rotating Detonation Engine (ARC-DECRA)
  Project lead: Fabian Zander
• Fluid-thermal-structural interactions on high-speed aerospace vehicles (ARC-DP)
  UniSQ Project lead: David Buttsworth
  Research Partner: UNSW
• Dispersion of spacecraft components during re-entry (ARC-DP)
  UniSQ team: David Buttsworth, Fabian Zander, Ingo Jahn, Flynn Hack and Gerard Armstrong
• Expanding the scramjet operating envelope through oxygen enrichment 
  UniSQ Project lead: Ingo Jahn 
  Research Partner: UQ

Theme projects, include:

• Australian Airborne Observation of the Hayabusa2 Re-Entry Capsule
  Project lead: Fabian Zander, David Buttsworth and Byrenn Birch
• Remote diagnostics for space-access flight testing (ARC-LP)
  Project lead: David Buttsworth and Fabian Zander
• Airborne Observation of the Tau Herculids Meteor Shower
  Project lead: Fabian Zander and David Buttsworth