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Professor J.P. Sislian Contact Information Introduction WARP Code (CFD) Recent Publications Research Projects: The Shock-Induced Combustion Ramjet (SHCRAMJET)
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IntroductionThe focus of research in the High-Speed Vehicle
Propulsion Systems Group at UTIAS is the development of new
concepts of "air-breathing" space launchers, as opposed
to pure rockets which carry the oxygen needed to burn the fuel.
Two such concepts are being explored: the rocket-based
combined-cycle engine or ramrocket,
which combines the rocket and ramjet cycles and hence uses air as
the oxidizer in part of its ascent trajectory; and the ultimate
air-breathing space launcher: the shock-induced combustion ramjet
or shcramjet,
in which heat is added to a premixed hypersonic combustible flow
through a detonation wave or shock-induced combustion. Principal Investigator: 
Last updated November 18, 2005 2001-2005 UTIAS High-Speed Vehicle
Propulsion Systems Group |