Themes

Technical papers are solicited in the following topic areas:

Missions and Vehicles addressing:

• Mission planning and real-time adaptation and optimization
• Planned and ongoing space plane and hypersonic vehicle programs and approaches
• Advanced launch vehicles and hypersonic atmospheric flight vehicles
• Reentry vehicle systems and technologies
• Overall vehicle system performance and optimization

Operational Systems Aspects addressing:

• Benefits and practicality of hypersonic civil transport
• Economic and market analysis
• Environmental effects including chemical pollution, noise, and sonic boom
• Regulatory, certification, operational, and health and safety issues

Thermal Management Systems for Vehicles and all Subsystems addressing:

• Advanced concepts
• System and component performance, dynamics and active or passive control
• Trajectory adjustment and optimization
• System and component development and manufacturing
• Thermal protection systems, coatings and ablative systems
• Thermal protection of non-operating propulsion systems (cocooning)

Propulsion Systems including and addressing:

• Rockets, ejector-ramjets, ramjets, dual mode ramjets, scramjets
• Rocket and turbine based combined cycles
• Detonation engines, electric propulsion, and other advanced propulsion systems
• Advanced cycles and concepts
• System performance, dynamics and control
• System development and manufacturing
• Airframe interaction and integration

Propulsion Components addressing:

• Compression components including forebodies, intakes, and compressors
• Air cooling/collection devices
• Injectors, combustors, isolators, nozzles and afterbodies
• Propellant supply systems
• Performance enhancement concepts, e.g., plasma-assisted techniques and advanced nozzles
• Component performance, dynamics and control
• Component development and manufacturing
• Conventional and alternative fuels, additives, catalysis

Guidance and Control Systems addressing:

• Flight mechanics, guidance and control systems for vehicles, subsystems, and payloads
• Routing, navigation, trajectory optimization, and operations research
• Health monitoring sensors, actuators, controllers and algorithms
• System and component performance, dynamics and control

Materials and Structures for Vehicles and all Subsystems addressing:

• Basic materials science and properties
• Metallic and composite materials for hot and cooled structures
• Thermal protection systems
• Active/functional materials
• Quality control, damage tolerance, structural health monitoring, and survivability
• Materials manufacturing and processing

Test and Evaluation addressing:

• Ground test facilities, flight test operations, and simulations
• Diagnostics and data systems
• Scale limitations and facility effects
• Test methodology, validation and verification

Computational Methods addressing:

• Advanced computational techniques, FVM, FEM, Cartesian, Overset
• Thermo-chemically reacting flows
• Rarefied flows, DSMC methods
• All-speed regimes codes
• Turbulence modeling, RANS, DES, LES, etc.
• Wall catalysis and ablation
• Magneto-hydrodynamic effects
• Radiation cooling effects
• CFD mesh control methods for structured and unstructured grids
• Hypersonic vehicles design optimization
• Code validation and verification
• Facility modeling and simulation

Hypersonic Fundamentals and History addressing:

• Experimental and analytical studies
• Aero-thermodynamics, gas physics and chemistry
• Radiation physics and fluid-structure interactions
• Historical aspects, analyses, assessments and lessons learned