'Lighting a match in a tornado' is one of multiple feats for propulsion center
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 16:21
in Physics & Chemistry
Walter O'Brien, director of Virginia Tech's Center for Turbomachinery and Propulsion Research, has received a patent for his design of a novel ignitor for combustion and supersonic flows, a device that may prove useful in Mach 5 or hypersonic speed vehicles.