The one with the return to the Blog...

好久不見！！

Or what is the same in Chinese, Long time no see!!
I know that I have not posted in a long long time. But here I am and with a strong compromise of posting every week at least once. Today will be about me going to study my M.S!!!!
On Friday May 27th I was officcialy accepted to NCKU!!


NCKU?... What is that??

Well, here is a little info about NCKU....
National Cheng Kung University (traditional Chinese: 國立成功大學; simplified Chinese: 国立成功大学), also Koxinga University, is a national university in Tainan City, Taiwan. Its abbreviation is NCKU. In Chinese, it is shortened to 成大 (Chéng Dà). Cheng Kung is named after Koxinga (Cheng Ch'eng-kung), who defeated the Dutch and founded the Kingdom of Tungning in Taiwan.NCKU is one of the most prestigious universities in Taiwan, with high reputations in science, engineering, medicine, management, planning & design. According to Times Higher Education- QS World University Rankings and Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, NCKU was ranked second or third among all universities in Taiwan. Many surveys throughout the years also show that its students are most desired by Taiwanese companies. NCKU has 9 colleges, 40 departments, 82 graduate institutes, and 54 research centers, and is also a major university, education and area network center in Taiwan. In specific fields, NCKU ranked globally the 41st in the field of Engineering and the 216th in the field of Natural Science.
Here is a link to a map of NCKU (http://news-en.secr.ncku.edu.tw/ezfiles/54/1054/img/56/campus_eng.jpg)
And about the Master??
I will start my M.S. in Aerospace Engineering next September, and I couldnt be more excited. So in the moment when I got notiffy about my admission, I contact the professors and search for a Research group. There where many amazing projects, but the most amazing one was
"Pilot Research of Hypersonic Speed Vehicle (2/3)"
The project explanation goes like this...

Supersonic Combustion Ramjet (SCRamjet) engine is the next generation propulsion system and its design encompasses the key technologies of the efficient supersonic combustion and the integrated hypersonic airframe. To elevate the capacity of domestic defence technologies, a collaboration research program on SCRamjet engines between National Cheng Kung University and Chung-shan Institute of Science and Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C., was set up. Chung-shan Institute of Science and Technology is well-experienced in the development of Ramjet engines and is engaging heavily in the development of SCRamjet engines now. The aims of the joint program are to build up the fundamental design tools and capacities of the domestic hypersonic vehicles. The entire program is scheduled over a span of 9 years with 3 phases. In the first phase (3 years), the ground test facilities for generating hypersonic flow fields and supersonic combustion, optical diagnostic technologies, and CFD tools with real gas effects and turbulence modeling of supersonic combustion flows will be developed. In this phase, hydrogen-fueled technologies will be focused. In the second phase (3 years), the project will be extended to the hydrocarbon-fueled technologies, based on the tools developed in the first phase. In the third phase (3 years), the designs of the SCRamjet engine and the hypersonic vehicle will be optimized, according to the data collected in the first two phases. The optimized models will also be validated in the ground test facilities. This proposed project—“Pilot Research of Hypersonic Vehicle (2/3)” is the continuing project of the first year project in the first phase. Base on the first year efforts, the goals of the project are to (1) design and build up the hydrogen fuel injection system, conduct the flow visualization and pressure and heat flux measurements of the supersonic combustion flow fields, and complete the SCRamjet engine experiments and comparison with CFD simulations; (2) complete the two-dimensional OH-LIPF experiments to depict the temperature and OH concentration distributions in the supersonic combustion flow fields, with the adaption of the tunable KrF excimer laser and temperature calibration; (3) conduct the numerical parametric study of the supersonic combustor for its design; (4) investigate the hypersonic inlet and nozzle flows numerically to assist us in the detailed design of the integrated airframe. In the on-going first year project, a hypersonic shock tunnel which can generate flows with Mach number ranging from 2 to 6, the optical diagnostic technique—OH-LIPF florescence spectral analysis method calibrated in the hydrogen/air flame, and CFD algorithm including real gas effects and turbulence modeling of supersonic combustion flows are being implemented.

As you can see in the Picture above, in simply words, the project is about aircraft propulsion systems!
So... I went to talk with the Professor in charge of this project, Professor Wen Chih-Yung (溫志湧), he has an impressive CV and seems to have an amazing team. So after the meeting I ask him if he could accept me in his research team and he said yes!!!
So here is it. My return to the posts will be inform you all that starting as soon as possible  I will be designing Supersonic Engines!!

A Rocket Scientist....