03-04-2010, 05:55 AM
[quote name='qubit' date='03 March 2010 - 04:16 PM' timestamp='1267661315' post='104789']
Yeah, I know of these two limits you've mentioned. However, my initial guess is that a scramjet for the BrahMos-II should be designed so as to accomodate flows at least upto Mach 3+ into the combustion chamber. I'll verify this figure when I find some time, but the scramjet certainly needs to be designed for input flows having Mach numbers > 2 into the combustion chamber. Incidently, I know what AVATAR is (or what it is protrayed to be) and it's more than a couple of decades away, or even much further than that, given the exemplary work ethics at DRDO!
BTW, your statement If DRDO has quasi perfected a Scramjet for that.... doesn't mean that what is most likely a proof-of-principle experiment on scramjets by DRDO comes anywhere close to perfecting a working and reliable scramjet for the Brahmos-II let alone the AVATAR! Incidently FYI the precise flight envelope of the AVATAR hasn't been finalized.
[/quote]
Yeah, I know of these two limits you've mentioned. However, my initial guess is that a scramjet for the BrahMos-II should be designed so as to accomodate flows at least upto Mach 3+ into the combustion chamber. I'll verify this figure when I find some time, but the scramjet certainly needs to be designed for input flows having Mach numbers > 2 into the combustion chamber. Incidently, I know what AVATAR is (or what it is protrayed to be) and it's more than a couple of decades away, or even much further than that, given the exemplary work ethics at DRDO!
BTW, your statement If DRDO has quasi perfected a Scramjet for that.... doesn't mean that what is most likely a proof-of-principle experiment on scramjets by DRDO comes anywhere close to perfecting a working and reliable scramjet for the Brahmos-II let alone the AVATAR! Incidently FYI the precise flight envelope of the AVATAR hasn't been finalized.
[/quote]