It is very important to develop the technology of the hypersonic vehicle along with the demand of many countries. This article summarizes the technology of MHD flow control and MHD generator and analyzes key technical issues of application of MHD. It included increase theoretic research and found accurate 3D model of MHD flow. The first, it needs to develop technology of large dimension plasma generator to impose effect of MHD in scramjet, at the same time it also needs to consider weight volume material and thermal protective; The second, it needs to build model of MHD energy bypass and calculate range of application of MHD.

Mechanism of hypersonic inlet performance promoting by “virtual cowl” induced by laser energy is introduced, and the physical model of interaction between laser energy and shocks in hypersonic flow field is established. Through comparing results in this paper with the work performed by Macheret et al.(Princeton University) and analyzing effects of laser energy deposited in hypersonic flow, numerical program and the feasibility of model are validated. At Mach 6, with no laser energy addition, air mass capture ratioKmis 71.87% in this paper, whileKmis 73.17% in the reference. Energy addition module can simulate the formation of shocks induced by laser energy, and the interaction process between laser energy and compression ramp shocks properly. Curves of mass capture ratioKmagrees well with that of the reference.Kmis a little higher than data in the reference, but the variable trend is consistent with each other when laser power is 1kW. When laser power is 0.5kW,Kmvaries a little, and the peak value is 77.36%, which only increases 7.64%, while the value is 7.28% in the reference.