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2026
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18521264 |
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- <p>This research program investigates the fundamental conditions under which sustained hypersonic flight is physically and structurally admissible. Rather than optimizing specific vehicles, configurations, or material compositions, the work adopts a constraint-based, model-agnostic framework designed to identify necessary conditions for stability in extreme flow regimes. Classical assumptions embedded in predefined turbulence models, fixed material properties, empirical heat-transfer laws, and control-centric design methodologies are explicitly excluded. Across multiple studies, hypersonic flight is reframed as a materials-driven, co-evolutionary systems problem in which stability emerges only through coupled interaction between flow, geometry, and material response. This approach challenges long-standing assumptions of passive material endurance and control-dominated stability, offering a structural explanation for persistent experimental difficulties observed in hypersonic programs.</p>