HiSST Topics

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