UT Arlington wins $1.01 million grant to build first university-based, large-scale, arc-heated hypersonic-testing facility

Built for speedA University of Texas at Arlington aerospace engineering team will build the country’s only university-based, arc-heated, hypersonic-testing facility for thermal protection systems through a new $1.01 million Defense University Research Instrumentation Program grant. Luca Maddalena, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,  is the principal investigator for the grant. He will lead development of a large-scale, arc-heated wind tunnel at the existing UT Arlington Aerodynamics Research Center  at the