TECHNICAL TOPICS
Technical papers are solicited in the following topic areas:
- 1. Missions and Vehicles
- 2. Operational Systems Aspects
- 3. Thermal Management Systems for Vehicles and all Subsystems
- 4. Propulsion Systems
- 5. Propulsion Components
- 6. Guidance, Navigation, and Control Systems
- 7. Aerodynamics and Flight Dynamics Systems
- 8. Materials and Structures for Vehicles and all Subsystems
- 9. Experimental Methods
- 10. Computational Methods
- 11. Emerging Disciplines in Hypersonics
- 12. Hypersonics History
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Mission planning and real-time adaptation and optimization
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Planned and ongoing space plane and hypersonic vehicle programs and approaches
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Advanced launch vehicles and hypersonic atmospheric flight vehicles
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Reentry vehicle systems and technologies
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Overall vehicle system performance and optimization
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Conceptual designs
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Benefits and practicality of hypersonic civil transport
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Economic and market analysis
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Environmental effects including chemical pollution, noise, and sonic boom
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Regulatory, certification, operational, health and safety issues
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Advanced thermal management concepts
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System and component performance, dynamics and active or passive control
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Trajectory adjustment and optimization
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System and component development and manufacturing
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Thermal protection systems, coatings and ablative systems
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Thermal protection of non-operating propulsion systems (cocooning)
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Rockets, ejector-ramjets, ramjets, dual mode ramjets, scramjets
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Rocket and turbine based combined cycles
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Detonation engines, electric propulsion, and other advanced propulsion systems
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Advanced cycles and concepts
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System performance, dynamics and control
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System development and manufacturing
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Airframe interaction and integration
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Compression components including forebodies, intakes, and compressors
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Air cooling/collection devices
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Injectors, combustors, isolators, nozzles and afterbodies
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Propellant supply systems
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Performance enhancement concepts, e.g. plasma assisted techniques and advanced nozzles
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Component performance, dynamics and control
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Component development and manufacturing
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Conventional and alternative fuels, additives, catalysis
• 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
• Vehicle control and maneuverability
• Flight stability and dynamics
• Aerodynamic force and moment databases
• Drag predictions
• 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
• Ground test facilities, flight test operations, and comparison to simulations
• Diagnostics and data systems
• Scale limitations and facility effects
• Test methodology, validation and verification
• 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
• Fluid/structure interaction
• Weather and particulate effects
• CFD mesh control methods for structured and unstructured grids
• Hypersonic vehicles design optimization
• Code validation and verification
• Facility modeling and simulation
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in hypersonics
• Interdisciplinary advancements focused on addressing the unique challenges associated with hypersonic flight
• Weather effects
• Historical aspects, analyses, assessments
• Historical reviews
• Lessons learned from previous hypersonic efforts
• New analysis of old historical data
Abstract Instructions
An extended abstract of at least 1000 words, with key figures and extended references to existing publications, is required. Authors must clearly identify in the abstract new or significant aspects of their work. Abstract reviewers will base their recommendations on the acceptance or rejection of the following:
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Whether the abstracts meet the requirements described above
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The relevance of the work
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The originality of the work
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Contribution to the field: Does it advance the current state of knowledge?
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Are significant results presented to ensure timely completion of the paper?
An Authors’ Kit containing detailed instructions and guidelines for submitting papers to AIAA will be made available to authors of accepted papers. Authors of accepted papers must provide a complete manuscript to AIAA online by 2 June 2026 for inclusion in online proceedings and for the right to present at the conference. It is the responsibility of those authors whose presentations or papers are accepted to ensure that a representative attends to present the paper. Sponsor and/or employer approval of each paper is the author’s responsibility. Authors should determine the extent of approval necessary early in the paper presentation process to preclude paper withdrawals or late submission.
If a written paper is not submitted by the final manuscript deadline, authors will not be permitted to present the paper at the conference. It is the responsibility of those authors whose papers or presentations are accepted to ensure that a representative attends the conference to present the paper in person. If a paper is not presented at the conference, it will be withdrawn from the conference proceedings. These policies are intended to eliminate no-shows and improve the quality of the conference for attendees.
