{"id":396154,"date":"2026-03-21T05:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/396154\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T05:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:50:33","slug":"from-years-to-a-week-china-unveils-superfast-software-for-hypersonic-weapon-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/396154\/","title":{"rendered":"From years to a week: China unveils superfast software for hypersonic weapon design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese scientists have developed revolutionary software capable of fully simulating the extreme physics of supersonic fuel combustion in just one week.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Previously, the same task could take a supercomputer years to complete, they said.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by a research team led by Yao Wei at the Institute of Mechanics, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/chinese-academy-sciences-cas?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chinese Academy of Sciences<\/a>, the software was used to run an ultra-high-fidelity simulation of a scramjet engine in which combustion takes place in supersonic airflow.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It modelled its internal dynamics across hundreds of millions of computational cells \u2013 more than 20 times the resolution typical of current global research.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Despite the staggering complexity, the full simulation was completed in only seven days.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This simulation technology has provided critical support for the model design of a classified national project, according to a report on the website of the Institute of Mechanics in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists have developed revolutionary software capable of fully simulating the extreme physics of supersonic fuel combustion in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[180304,381,4563,180300,180306,180299,18,180297,19,180302,17,180298,133,180301,180305,384,180303,180307],"class_list":{"0":"post-396154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-air-breathing-hypersonic-technology","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","11":"tag-combustion-and-flame","12":"tag-df","13":"tag-dzfm","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-hyshot-ii-engine","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-institute-of-mechanices","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-professor-yao-wei","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-scramjet-engine","22":"tag-supersonic-fuel-combustion","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-yj","25":"tag-znm"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116265603949047549","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}