Studies have been conducted for a propulsion system for a hypersonic vehicles. The system performance of this system is attractive and detailed combustion research is needed to assess the potential.
Several studies are ongoing in the area of high energy laser research.
One study includes the full description of the mixing and reaction of a flow field containing excited oxygen and iodine. The resultant performance is obtained using a full 3D-CFD Navier Stokes description of the flow field. Computations provide the laser performance, fluid mixing and chemistry in our Computational Laboratory. Experimental results are obtained for high energy lasers in Laboratory for Laser Research. Several new experimental lasers are being developed in our laboratories.