15 - Guest lectures

HYPERSONIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA: FROM FUNDAMENTAL AEROTHERMODYNAMICS TO FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION

B.J. Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea

Korea's hypersonic activity has grown over the past decade across defense, civil aerospace, and academia. This talk gives an overview along three lines. The first is air-breathing propulsion and flight demonstration, led by government research agencies with support from the domestic industrial base. The second is ground-test capability, including scramjet engine test facilities and university shock and arc-heated tunnels used for combustion, intake, thermal-protection, and aerothermodynamic testing. The third is university research on boundary-layer transition, shock-dominated flows, and stability-based simulation. The talk summarizes the main organizations and facilities, the principal capability gaps, and closes by describing how the scope of this work is broadening toward space-exploration applications such as Mars atmospheric entry and sample-return missions.

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