Hypersonic Vehicle Co-design
Optimizing vehicle design and trajectory simultaneously
Simultaneous optimisation of hypersonic vehicle design and trajectory, using propagated geometric and aerodynamic sensitivities, along with automatic differentiation tools.
![Codesign Flowchart](/assets/img/project-imgs/codesign_flowchart.png)
Flowchart of co-design loop
![sCO2 heat exchanger wind tunnel](/assets/img/project-imgs/codesign_params.png)
![sCO2 heat exchanger wind tunnel](/assets/img/project-imgs/codesign_wingspan.png)
Parameterisation of hypersonic waverider geometry
![sCO2 heat exchanger wind tunnel](/assets/img/project-imgs/codesign_convergence.png)
Example iterations of waverider parameters
![sCO2 heat exchanger wind tunnel](/assets/img/project-imgs/codesign_gif.gif)
Example iterations of waverider geometry