air-breathing - deriving oxygen from the air; "he studied respiration in marine air-breathing vertebrates"; "large air-breathing ichthyosaurs had hydrofoils"
Over the years, CCSL has supplied more than 35 licences to the Abingdonbased firm, which was formed in 1989 to design and develop the technologies needed for a new class of innovative hypersonic propulsion system - the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE).
Reaction Engines is known for its Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine, a hybrid engine blending jet and rocket technology that is capable of Mach 5 in air-breathing mode and Mach 25 in rocket mode for space flight.
Other topics include diffuse-interface capturing methods for compressible two-phase flows, slamming: recent developments in evaluating impact pressures, intracellular fluid mechanics: coupling cytoplasmic flow with active cytoskeletal gel, the sound of flow over rigid walls, and supersonic combustion in air-breathing propulsion systems for hypersonic flight.
Atanassov, "Design of experiments and principal component analysis as approaches for enhancing performance of gas-diffusional air-breathing bilirubin oxidase cathode," Journal of Power Sources, vol.