Technical Topics
High-Speed Missions and Vehicles including:
- Planned and ongoing national and international high-speed vehicle programs and missions
- Advanced launch vehicle concepts and hypersonic atmospheric flight vehicle concepts including commercial space tourism, intercontinental transport and (re)-entry
- Design, development and manufacturing of related technologies and components, both for reusable and expendable applications
- Overall system performance & optimization
- Design methodologies and engineering models
Propulsion Systems and Components including rocket, ramjet, dual mode ramjet, scramjet, rocket and turbine combined cycles, detonation engines,
electric propulsion and other advanced propulsion systems addressing:
- Advanced cycles & concepts including plasma assisted combustion techniques covering full Mach range with application to hypersonic regimes
- System & component performance, development & manufacturing: inlets, isolators, combustors, injectors, ignition, flam holding, nozzles…
- Combustion and mixing processes incl. ignition, flame-out, instabilities…
- Airframe interaction and integration
Conventional, cryogenic & alternative fuels, additives, catalysis
- Propulsion and fuel (sub)systems: feed-lines, pumps, tanks….
- Advanced computational techniques, CFD & engineering models
Thermal and Energy Management Systems for vehicle, subsystems, and payload, including sources, conversation and distribution systems addressing:
- Thermal protection, heat exchangers, cooling, coating & ablative systems
- Active and Passive systems
- System & component performance, development & manufacturing
- On-board power generation and environmental control
- Design methodologies, engineering models and advanced computational techniques
Guidance & Control Systems including flight mechanics, guidance, navigation, routing, trajectory optimization, operations research, sensors, actuators, controllers
and algorithms, and health monitoring addressing:
- Flight control and trajectory optimization techniques
- Health monitoring and management, fault detection isolation and recovery, health and usage monitoring systems
- System & component performance, development & manufacturing
- Advanced computational techniques, CFD & engineering models
Materials and Structures for vehicle and all subsystems covering:
- Metallic & non-metallic materials for hot and cooled structures and thermal protection systems
- Active/functional materials
- Hot, cold and integrated structural architectures incl. conformal layouts
- Quality control, damage tolerance, structural health monitoring and survivability
- Materials manufacturing and processing
- Advanced modelling & computational techniques
High-Speed Aerodynamics and Aerothermodynamics with application to hypersonic regimes covering full Mach range from take-off,
cruise and (re)-entry including:
- Numerical and experimental studies including aero-thermodynamics, stability-transition-turbulence, MHD, gas physics and chemistry, radiation physics,
destructive re-entry - Numerical and experimental thermal studies incl. passive and active heat transfer, regenerative, transpiration, ablation, pyrolysis, endothermic decomposition…
- Advanced modelling & computational techniques: development and validation
- Multi-disciplinary techniques and models: fluid-structure interaction, conjugate heat transfer, CFD/flexible and rigid body dynamics…
Testing & Evaluation covering:
- Ground and in-flight test facilities, flight test operations and simulations
- Diagnostics and data systems
- Scale limitations and facility effects
- Validation and verification
- Facility modelling & simulation
Operations and Environment including:
- Economic and market analysis incl. cost modelling
- Regulatory, certification, operation, maintenance, health & safety issues: on-ground and in-flight
- Environmental effects including sonic boom, noise and emissions
- Infrastructure and traffic management
Hypersonic Fundamentals and History including:
- Theoretical and analytical studies including aero-thermodynamics, stability-transition-turbulence, SWBLI, MHD, gas physics and chemistry, radiation physics,
fluid-structure interaction and destructive re-entry - Theoretical and analytical thermal studies incl. passive and active heat transfer, regenerative, transpiration, ablation, endothermic decomposition…
- Basic materials science for high temperature and aggressive environment, life-time predictions…
- Historical aspects, analyses and assessments and lessons learned
Educational initiatives and workforce development activities
