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Scramjet Inlet Unstart & Hypersonic Heating Lab

Slide flight Mach number and watch a scramjet inlet's oblique shock cone reconfigure — staying started inside its design range, unstarting outside it — while leading-edge heating climbs with the cube of Mach number.

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Drag the Mach slider and watch a scramjet's oblique shock cone reshape itself — a fixed inlet ramp only lines that cone up with the cowl lip across a narrow Mach band. Stay inside it and the inlet stays "started," feeding supersonic air to the combustor; push outside it and the shock geometry visibly detaches, spills, and the engine unstarts. A second live gauge tracks leading-edge heat flux, which climbs roughly with the cube of Mach number — showing why propulsion and thermal-protection design can't be solved separately on a hypersonic vehicle.

⚙ Under the hood

Slide flight Mach number and watch a scramjet inlet's oblique shock cone reconfigure in real time — staying correctly started within its designed Mach range and visibly unstarting outside it — while a live leading-edge heat-flux gauge climbs roughly with the cube of Mach number toward the vehicle's material limit.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install