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
