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Introducing Plasmatron X

The only hypersonics facility of its kind in the United States, facilitating research in high-temperature materials and structures, plasma modeling, and diagnostics for materials, plasma and hypersonic flows.

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WHO WE ARE

The Center for Hypersonics and Entry Systems Studies (CHESS) is a multidisciplinary team of researchers in The Grainger College of Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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WHAT WE DO

We draw from expertise in high performance computing and state-of-the-art experimental facilities to support fundamental advances in hypersonics and entry system technologies.

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Growing demand for flight data and plasma wind tunnels in Europe, U.S. to study reentry conditions

The Thermophysics Technical Committee promotes the study and application of mechanisms involved in thermal energy transfer and storage in gases, liquids and solids.

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News | December 1, 2023

Hypersonics manufacturing scales up and international allies engage

The Hypersonic Technologies and Aerospace Planes Technical Committee works to expand the hypersonic knowledge base and promote continued hypersonic technology progress through ground and flight testing.

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News | December 1, 2023

Sreevishnu Oruganti has been awarded the 2022 - Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program Fellowship

Sreevishnu Oruganti has been awarded the 2022 - Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program Fellowship

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News | April 1, 2023

Two AE professors named AIAA Associate Fellows

This week the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics announced its list of newly elected Class of 2023 Associate Fellows. The list includes Marco Panesi and Francesco Panerai, both faculty members in the Department of Aerospace Engineering.

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News | December 7, 2022

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Sponsoring Agencies

Air Force Research Laboratory Air Force Office of Scientific Research         Joint Hypersonics Transition Office        USDRE       Department of Energy

Lockheed Martin                Ultramet          The Grainger College of Engineering