hypersonic

Creating hypersonic aircraft requires a much deeper understanding of how air behaves at Mach 5, Mach 6, or even Mach 10.

If it ever becomes achievable, hypersonic flight could dramatically reshape international travel.

"It really shrinks the planet," says Professor Nicholaus Parziale, whose work centers on turning hypersonic travel from aspiration into reality.

This also suggests that future hypersonic aircraft may not require a completely different design philosophy.

That gap led to Parziale's recent research, described in his study Hypersonic Turbulent Quantities in Support of Morkovin's Hypothesis, published in Nature Communications on November 12, 2025.