PROGRAM OVERVIEW

1、High-Speed Missions and Vehicles including:

•  • Planned and ongoing national and international high-speed vehicle programs and missions
•  • Advanced space launcher concepts and high-speed atmospheric flight vehicle concepts
•  • Design, development and manufacturing of related technologies and components, both for reusable and expendable applications
•  • Design methodologies and engineering models
•  • Overall system design and/or performance optimization

2、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
•   • System & component performance, development & manufacturing: air inlets, isolators, combustors, injectors, ignition, flameholding, nozzles…
•   • Combustion and mixing processes including ignition, flame-out, instabilities, plasma assistance…
•   • Airframe interaction and integration
•   • Conventional, cryogenic & alternative fuels, additives, catalysis
•   • Fuel systems: feed-lines, pumps, tanks…
•   • Advanced computational techniques, CFD & engineering models

3、Thermal, Energy and Management Systems for vehicle, subsystems, and payload, including sources, conversion 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, CFD & engineering models and advanced computational techniques (multiphysics)

4、Guidance & Control Systems including flight mechanics, guidance, navigation, routing, trajectory optimization, operations research, sensors, actuators, controllers and algorithms, and health monitoring addressing:

•   • Flight control design and in-flight adaptation
•   • On-ground and in-flight 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

5、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 including conformal layouts
•   • Quality control, damage tolerance, structural health monitoring and survivability
•   • Materials manufacturing and processing
•   • Advanced modelling & computational techniques

6、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, SWBLI, MHD, gas physics and chemistry, radiation physics, fluid structure interaction and 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

7、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

8、Operation and Environment including:

•   • Economic and market analysis including cost modelling
•   • Regulatory, certification, operation, maintenance, health & safety issues: on-ground and in-flight
•   • Environmental effects including sonic boom, noise and emissions
•   • Atmospheric composition – models and effects on performance
•   • Infrastructure and traffic management

9、Hypersonic Fundamentals and History 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