Content may be subject to copyright.This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publ... ...This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in [Response to “Comment on ‘A new approach for the design of hypersonic scramjet inlets’” [Phys. Fluids 32, 079101 (2020)]. Physics of Fluids 32, 7 p079102 (2020)] and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0012513.