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TECHNOLOGY DETAIL : SPECIAL REPORT
SCRAMJET RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT WORLDWIDE
ISBN 1-899773-16-9
by Professor Paul A. Czysz
An EXPANDED SECOND EDITION of this WIDE-RANGING,THOUGHT-PROV OKING STUDY of CONTEMPORARY SCRAMJET RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT WORK AROUND THE WORLD.
Professor Czysz is a former Chief Scientist at the McDonnell-Douglas Corporation for the US National Aero-Spaceplane (NASP) Project and has visited hypersonics research groups and research facilities in recent years in Russia, Europe, North America and the Far East. In this Study he looks in detail at a wide range of research and development programmes in China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia and the USA, including a number of somewhat disguised technology projects that are clearly highly relevent to current scramjet research and development.
The Report reviews the overall requirements and current limitations imposed on scramjet research. It examines the many possible engine cycles in detail, including expander cycle rocket, ATR and LACE/scramjet as well as thermally integrated combined cycles, turbomachinery-derived propulsion and relevent subsonic and supersonic flow ramjets. The Report provides an innovative and alternative view of integration and configuration studies and develops an unbiased and logical identification of the most promising systems and how they can be used most effectively in commercial high-speed transports or commercial space launch vehicles.
Scramjet research and development is occurring on a global scale, yet conclusions about which route to take are quite varied. Russian and Japanese work is considered in detail because they offer the most comprehensive view. Other nations are considered in the context of these efforts. The context under which proposals are evaluated strongly influences conclusions and decisions. The Report concludes that the value of a scramjet is heavily determined by the low speed propulsion system into which it is integrated and that one vital factor in scramjet success is the transonic thrust to drag ratio.
249 pages, comb-bound A4 size, photographs, diagrams, flow plans and charts.This revised Second Edition published in August 1999.
UK £600 or US $1,050
additional copies in one order to one address : second copy £300 or $525 : other extra copies £200 or $350
text specimen pages will be available after publication