Chinese scientists have developed revolutionary software capable of fully simulating the extreme physics of supersonic fuel combustion in just one week.Previously, the same task could take a supercomputer years to complete, they said.Developed by a research team led by Yao Wei at the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the software was used to run an ultra-high-fidelity simulation of a scramjet engine in which combustion takes place in supersonic airflow.AdvertisementIt modelled its internal dynamics across hundreds of millions of computational cells – more than 20 times the resolution typical of current global research.Despite the staggering complexity, the full simulation…