Apr 25, 2022 04:50 PM
Yeah, sure it will...
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https://medium.com/predict/nasas-new-ai-...220621a067
EXCERPTS: . . . Instead, a scramjet is a better option. Scramjet stands for supersonic combustion ramjet, and they work in exactly the same way as a jet on a plane, except with no moving parts. In a typical jet a turbine compresses the incoming air, fuel is then injected and ignited, which then forces the air out of the jet, creating thrust. But a scramjet does away with the turbine. Instead, it uses the craft’s speed to ram air into the combustion chamber with sufficient pressure to get optimal combustion. This makes them far more efficient and powerful than an average jet.
This efficiency, combined with the fact they don’t need to carry their own oxygen supply, means that they can be built far smaller, far lighter and have a far greater range than an equivalent rocket. This makes them ideal for hypersonic missiles.
However, understanding how air flows through a scramjet at hypersonic speeds is incredibly difficult. So much so that even our best supercomputers struggle to model it accurately or find optimal designs. This results in even our best scramjet designs having a lot of losses and drag being inadvertently built into them, which lowers their speed and reduces range. This sub-optimal design is a weakness of our current hypersonic missiles.
[...] This is where NASA and Argonne come in. They have designed an AI that can use a scramjet’s CFD (computational fluid dynamics) testing results (this is how a computer models air flowing around or through an object) and use it to figure out how to optimize the design of a scramjet missle for high speeds and greater efficiency. This has already been shown to create brilliantly efficient and powerful designs in far less time than previous methods and could even produce novel new designs.
In other words, this AI could design a hypersonic missile that is far faster and with greater range than any other in the world, sending the US to the forefront of this military arms race. All they need to do is apply this incredible AI to the HAWC, load it up with explosives, and off they go.
[...] Putin appears to believe NATO and The West won’t use nuclear weapons so our old deterrent of mutually assured destruction, that contained Russian aggression since the end of the Second World War, appears to have lost it’s potency. But, if NATO is armed with an arsenal of hypersonic missiles that has enough range to hit any Russian target, our deterrent is renewed. Such a powerful, precise and indefensible weapon would decimate any army, let alone the unorganized Russian army. Make no mistake. This AI really could change the course of the war... (MORE - missing details)
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https://medium.com/predict/nasas-new-ai-...220621a067
EXCERPTS: . . . Instead, a scramjet is a better option. Scramjet stands for supersonic combustion ramjet, and they work in exactly the same way as a jet on a plane, except with no moving parts. In a typical jet a turbine compresses the incoming air, fuel is then injected and ignited, which then forces the air out of the jet, creating thrust. But a scramjet does away with the turbine. Instead, it uses the craft’s speed to ram air into the combustion chamber with sufficient pressure to get optimal combustion. This makes them far more efficient and powerful than an average jet.
This efficiency, combined with the fact they don’t need to carry their own oxygen supply, means that they can be built far smaller, far lighter and have a far greater range than an equivalent rocket. This makes them ideal for hypersonic missiles.
However, understanding how air flows through a scramjet at hypersonic speeds is incredibly difficult. So much so that even our best supercomputers struggle to model it accurately or find optimal designs. This results in even our best scramjet designs having a lot of losses and drag being inadvertently built into them, which lowers their speed and reduces range. This sub-optimal design is a weakness of our current hypersonic missiles.
[...] This is where NASA and Argonne come in. They have designed an AI that can use a scramjet’s CFD (computational fluid dynamics) testing results (this is how a computer models air flowing around or through an object) and use it to figure out how to optimize the design of a scramjet missle for high speeds and greater efficiency. This has already been shown to create brilliantly efficient and powerful designs in far less time than previous methods and could even produce novel new designs.
In other words, this AI could design a hypersonic missile that is far faster and with greater range than any other in the world, sending the US to the forefront of this military arms race. All they need to do is apply this incredible AI to the HAWC, load it up with explosives, and off they go.
[...] Putin appears to believe NATO and The West won’t use nuclear weapons so our old deterrent of mutually assured destruction, that contained Russian aggression since the end of the Second World War, appears to have lost it’s potency. But, if NATO is armed with an arsenal of hypersonic missiles that has enough range to hit any Russian target, our deterrent is renewed. Such a powerful, precise and indefensible weapon would decimate any army, let alone the unorganized Russian army. Make no mistake. This AI really could change the course of the war... (MORE - missing details)
