Invited Speakers

Speaker: Ali Gülhan
Affiliation: DLR Cologne (Germany)
Title: "Challenges and Recent Progress in Instrumentation of Hypersonic Flight and Ground Experiments".



Speaker: Pablo Perez-Illana
Affiliation: European Commission’s CINEA Transport Research & Innovation, deputy head of unit
Title: “High-Speed Vehicles Research in EU/international programs”. 




Speaker: Dr. David E. Glass
Affiliation: NASA Langley Research Center
Title: "Ceramic Matrix Composite (CMC) Thermal Protection Systems (TPS) and Hot Structures for Hypersonic Vehicles".

Speaker: Yancheng You
Affiliation: Xiamen University
Title: "Curved shock theory and dual waverider concept".




Speaker: Graham Candler
Affiliation: McKnight Presidential Chair and Russell J. Penrose Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota
Title: Advances in the Simulation of Hypersonic Flows: the Power of High-Order Numerics

Speaker: Neil Sandham
Affiliation: University of Southampton
Title: Transition in high-speed flow with and without surface roughness elements
Biography: Neil Sandham (Southampton) has been Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Southampton since 1999, having previously been at Stanford University (PhD 1989), DLR Göttingen and Queen Mary, University of London. His area of expertise is DNS and Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) of transitional and turbulent flows, particularly in the high-speed flow regime. He was the founding principal investigator of the UK Turbulence Consortium, promoting the use of massively parallel computers for simulations of turbulent flows.