The Hypersonic Flight In the Turbulent Stratosphere (HYFLITS) research team was formed in 2016 and is currently funded by the AFOSR's听Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI)听grant, ," awarded by the AFOSR鈥檚 in December 2017.
The multidisciplinary HYFLITS team is composed of experts in the fields of in-situ atmospheric measurements and analysis, atmospheric modeling and forecasting, and aerothermodynamics and aero-optical modeling. Our goal is to ask and resolve questions related to how future hypersonic vehicle designs can account for the effects of ambient atmospheric turbulence and particles in the middle stratosphere.