Featuring Special Guest Lecturer, Olivier Chazot, professor and head of the Aeronautics and Aerospace Department at the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI).
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Hypersonics offers many advantages for aerospace applications in civil transport, space access, vehicle reusability, or strategic defense. However, a hypersonic regime is extremely demanding for vehicle design and those solutions need to be developed over the severe flight conditions it imposes. Aerothermodynamic phenomena at hypervelocity need to be better understood as they have a significant impact on the hypersonic vehicle design. This is especially true for their optimization, which is hardly addressed since such development is conducted with a conservative, or, more frequently, overconservative approach. While a number of active research programs are still dedicated to those investigations, this prevents us from benefiting from the full potential of hypersonic flight.
To reveal these challenges the presentation will give an overview of hypersonic flows and how they affect aerospace missions. The articulation of testing methodologies in high enthalpy and plasma facilities with high fidelity CFD tools for the study of critical aerothermodynamic phenomena in very high-speed flows will be discussed. Finally, the development from ground testing research to real-flight situation for the design of hypersonic systems and aerospace applications will be presented.
This AIAA Aerospace Perspectives Series webinar is hosted by AIAA and presented by Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin is assembling an outstanding panel of industry and academic leaders to discuss taking edge computing technologies and capabilities to the tactical edge. Edge computing is a distributed computing topology where information processing is located close to the source of the information, bringing computation and data storage closer to the edge which is typically not done today. There are many commercial applications of edge computing and it is anticipated that there are a number of benefits to the defense battlespace. This webinar will seek to address what edge computing is – as it relates to defense applications, the defense capabilities that are enabled with edge computing, challenges and solutions associated with implementation, as well as defense-specific needs to successfully implement advanced computing capabilities at the tactical edge.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, join NSBE Aerospace Special Interest Group in collaboration with AIAA for this special webinar featuring Women in Driving Innovation in the Space industry. The panel will offer a deep dive into their perspective and approach to propelling the industry into the next frontier while sharing insight into how industry innovations are disrupting the status quo of space policy and business.
Accelerating Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery
Event: ASCEND
Date: 23–25 October 2023
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Official Website: ascend.events
ASCEND brings together space’s leading industry luminaries and thinkers, biggest companies, government leaders, top media outlets, educators and students, and serious enthusiasts. Join us 23–25 October 2023 to access inspiring sessions and premium content, develop valuable business leads, and make meaningful connections.
Why should I attend?
At ASCEND you’ll:
- Plot the course of the industry’s future
- Pressure test ideas and forecast emerging trends
- Advance your career and showcase your expertise
- Reveal new ideas and technological prowess
- Test new products and meet the people behind them
- Connect and problem-solve with experts across every sector
- Find non-endemic partners to expand your reach and broaden your market
Who should attend?
During ASCEND, you’ll have a roll-up-your sleeves, hands-on opportunity to influence the course and trajectory the space economy takes into the future. It’s the first event of its kind to convene the entire international space ecosystem—not just the traditional players like propulsion, commerce, and national security, but also sectors like hospitality, mining, venture capital, tourism, and other private enterprises that will play an important role in making space commerce commonplace. ASCEND is not about making history but the future.
This is the meeting of the minds that you can’t afford to miss.
Exhibit, Sponsorship, and Advertising Options
AIAA offers a variety of engaging virtual opportunities to help increase your brand’s equity in the aerospace sciences market and display your efforts to become an industry leader. From virtual booths and sponsored sessions to networking breaks and banner advertising, AIAA offers options for every budget. Contact your sales rep today to create a custom package to fit your needs.
If you are interested in NASA technology, policy, and strategy then you will not want to miss this important ASCEND policy webinar featuring Bhavya Lal. She will discuss her newly established office’s responsibilities and how it will support the Biden Administration’s space priorities. Registration is free.
Featuring Special Guest Lecturer, Rodney D. W. Bowersox, Associate Dean for Research and Ford Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, TEES Executive Director, OUSD JHTO University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics
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This webinar is brought to you by the HyTASP Technical Committee and is offered exclusively to AIAA members. Want to learn more about the benefits of AIAA membership?
Join Dr. Rodney Bowersox as he presents an overview of the OUSD Joint Hypersonics Transition Office sponsored University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics (UCAH). UCAH is envisioned as a collaborative inclusive network of universities, government, industry, and national laboratories collaborating to deliver time-sensitive applied hypersonic research and prototype solutions to the DOD. The consortium membership includes 80 universities, 76 industries, and 8 national labs, FFRDCs and UARCs. A description of the organization structure and engagement opportunities is provided.
Additionally, Bowersox will present an overview of the hypersonic turbulent aerothermochemistry research at Texas A&M University. The focus of the research is to extend modeling to include mechanical, thermal, and chemical non-equilibrium effects. Three examples are discussed: (1) 2-D Mach 5 flow with pressure gradients, (2) 2-D Mach 6 flow with thermal non-equilibrium plasma, and (3) the BOLT II Flight Test in Memory of Mike Holden, which will produce a 3-D Mach 6 boundary layer with pressure gradients, non-iso-thermal walls, and a complex transition process.
Our dynamic panel will explain the basics of STM and why it is so important for space safety, sustainability, and security. They will describe the steps we have already taken to implement STM and the most important missing elements that still need action. Most importantly, you will gain an understanding of why this is an urgent issue that needs action now, and, how such action will send a strong, responsible signal to the international aerospace community.
This webinar is hosted by AIAA, in collaboration with PEGASAS.
Due to COVID-19, general aviation has the potential to emerge as a more frequently utilized transportation option, offering the ability to avoid traveling in high-capacity commercial aircraft and providing frequency of service or routes that are no longer available commercially. This gives general aviation an opportunity to leverage interest in technology developments for urban and regional air mobility. Join us as we explore what needs to be addressed to make this happen.
This webinar is open to the public and free of charge.
Featuring Special Guest Lecturer, Mark J. Lewis, AIAA Past President and Executive Director of NDIA’s Emerging Technologies Institute (ETI)
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The development of hypersonic systems is one of the Department of Defense’s top technology modernization priorities, with multiple programs across each of the military services and defense science agencies aimed at delivering practical high-speed systems at scale. Even at the basic research level, the United States has ramped up its efforts in hypersonic flight, engaging directly with universities on an unprecedented scale. Yet, just a few years ago, hypersonics was viewed by many in the defense leadership as a distant capability, with promises that often exceeded delivered performance; programs in the past tended to start and stop with a frustratingly cyclical regularity, negatively impacting industrial capacity and workforce preparation. Now the United States seems to be on a steady consistent course to develop and produce a range of hypersonic systems.
This talk will review developments in recent years that have taken hypersonics from the fringes of defense science and technology to front and center of the mainstream defense research and engineering. This presentation also will review some the key technical and programmatic developments that have led to the current status, including both successes and failures, as well as address the underlying question of why this time it’s different.
This webinar is hosted by AIAA, in collaboration with the
Aero Club of Washington and sponsored by Pratt & Whitney.
Leaders in aviation will share perspectives on the industry’s commitment to reducing their carbon footprint. The expert panel will discuss efforts underway and the significant cooperation, innovation, and education required among all industry stakeholders to deliver on this important goal. This timely discussion will outline the major focus areas and necessary advancements in the sector for the next five years and the long-term roadmap necessary to achieve this goal. Learn about the newest R&D technologies, key barriers to progress, and how the next generation of aerospace engineers can be part of achieving our low-carbon future. Explore how aviation executives and policy makers can work together now to be on the leading edge of such cooperation, setting the course for continued industry leadership in the new era of aviation sustainability.
This webinar is open to the public and free of charge.
