{"id":150300,"date":"2025-12-15T14:26:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=150300"},"modified":"2025-12-16T13:57:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:57:58","slug":"multi-university-hypersonics-research-initiative-launches-at-ucf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/multi-university-hypersonics-research-initiative-launches-at-ucf\/","title":{"rendered":"Multidisciplinary University Hypersonics Research Initiative Launches at Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leading researchers from across the country gathered at Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ on Dec. 12 to launch a major Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI), supported by the U.S. Army Research Office, aimed at transforming how scientists understand and design for the extreme environments of hypersonic flight. With flight tests, ground-test facilities, and first-principles simulations generating more complex data than ever, new analytical tools are urgently needed \u2014 and this initiative answers that call.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers\u00a0convening\u00a0at Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ underscores the university\u2019s national role as America\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/space\/\">Space<\/a> University and its growing influence in hypersonic science, aerospace innovation,\u00a0and defense research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBringing this national team to Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ is a tremendous step forward,\u201d says Trustee Chair Professor Kareem Ahmed, director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-u-s-air-force-partner-on-center-of-excellence-to-advance-hypersonics-space-propulsion\/\">Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ HyperSpace Research Center<\/a>. \u201cThis program will advance our understanding of the fundamental science behind hypersonic material interactions, driving breakthroughs in advanced materials, propulsion systems, and next-generation vehicle technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The five-year MURI will develop new methods that combine laboratory experiments, operando testing,\u00a0and atomistic simulations using advanced deep-generative algorithms. These techniques can disentangle multiple drivers of observed behavior, handle noisy measurements, and overcome nonlinear and chaotic relationships between what scientists can measure and what they need to infer. 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highly trained workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The initiative is expected to influence future U.S. Department of Defense hypersonic systems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The initiative is expected to influence future U.S. Department of Defense hypersonic systems \u2014 from vehicles and weapons to propulsion technologies \u2014 by improving material models, enhancing reliability assessments, and providing a framework that can be replicated across other advanced materials programs.<\/p>\n<p>The team includes leading experts in probabilistic inference (Assad Oberai, University of\u00a0Southern\u00a0California; Romit Maulik, Purdue\u00a0University); hypersonic flight experiments and simulation (Kareem Ahmed, Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½; Savio\u00a0Poovathingal, University of Kentucky; Onkar Sahni, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute); and micro-scale solid\u2013gas interface physics (Aiichiro\u00a0Nakano,\u00a0University of\u00a0Southern\u00a0California).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the program will train the next 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