Whatta laff.
Listen, the original design equations for gas turbines were written up by Chung Hua-Wu when he was in the U.S. in the 1950’s working for NACA.
His method for axisymmetric throughflow analysis is what GE and Pratt used for decades. It has only recently been replaced by viscous flow Navier-Stokes solutions.
But most of the grad students writing that stuff are um...Asian. And they got no problem going home and taking what’s in their brains with them. Or selling it on the open market.
Wu was like Tsien: he went home when the U.S. refused him a clearance in the 1950’s. He founded their jet engine industry, and it continues to this day.
Only a matter of time before they get on par between free trade, free immigration, and the decline of American manufacturing and education at the hands of the trash that opened our borders and holds Americans in contempt.
You’re certainly correct on the grad students and brainpower.
I believe the biggest problem the Chinese have is not design talent but process and manufacturing talent.
They have not (yet) developed consistent quality programs at the very high level needed for these applications.
But that day will come.
When I look at important research being published out of the US these days, the VAST majority have chinese authors. There a very few anglo/western names attached to this research.
I attribute this to (1) the ongoing war on white men by schools at all levels and (2) the universities need for full-pay international students.
There will come a day when these researchers will go home to China and the R&D leadership will have moved to China. US students will then have to go to China for the cutting edge in science and engineering.
Our leaders want to destroy this country and its people.