Omer Wexler | Air-breathing hypersonic vehicles (AHVs) have the potential to revolutionize space access and high-speed global transportation. These vehicles can cruise at Mach 5 and above, making them highly attractive for many time-critical applications. Furthermore, by using atmospheric oxygen, they eliminate the need to carry oxidizers. Consequently, AHVs offer increased payload capacities, reusability, and reduced construction and operational costs.

Yishai Glam | The aeroelastic stability and dynamic response of thin panels are important considerations in aerospace structures design. Traditional nonlinear Rayleigh-Ritz (RR) analysis struggles when applied to panels with nonuniform boundary conditions (BCs) or local constraints. Generating the necessary global basis functions is difficult, often leading to slow convergence and requiring many modes.

Royi Shabtay | The velocity field inside spherical-cap rising bubbles was measured quantitatively by ray-traced, planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) and shadowgraphy and then used to calculate scalar transport properties for bubbles of different Reynolds numbers.