ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,974, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to BEIHANG UNIVERSITY.
"Multi-scale method for high-temperature structure ablation prediction of hypersonic vehicles" was invented by Zhifan Ye (Beijing), Jin Zhao (Beijing), Zhihui Li (Beijing), Dongsheng Wen (Beijing) and Guice Yao (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-scale prediction method for an ablation behavior of a hypersonic aircraft heat resistant structure, includes inputting hypersonic inflow far field boundary conditions into a macro CFD solver to perform numerical simulation of the external flow field of a hypersonic aircraft; extracting the mass fraction and temperature dis...