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2010 Call for Papers
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Advanced Propulsion and Technologies Sessions
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Advanced Propulsion Concepts for Future Flight
These sessions are sponsored by the ASME Propulsion Committee. Please contact the organizer listed below for more information.
Unique Propulsion Systems
Papers are solicited that address unique propulsion systems and innovative or non-conventional engine concepts. Some specific topics include design and development of systems for prime movers for the following:
- Earth launch systems
- Space systems
- Advanced compact systems
- Nano-propulsion systems
- Reciprocating systems
- Lightweight aircraft engines
Innovative Concepts for Future Propulsion
Papers are solicited on the subject of innovative or emerging propulsion concepts. Topics of interest for these sessions include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Theoretical concept development
- Computational results
- Proposed experimental facilities
- Experimental results
- Mission analysis
- Instrumentation and diagnostic techniques
- Low LCC systems
Innovative Fusion Propulsion Confinement Concepts for Far-Term Application
Papers are solicited on the subject of innovative or emerging plasma confinement concepts for fusion-based space propulsion. Topics of interest for these sessions include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Theoretical concept development
- Computational results
- Proposed experimental facilities
- Mission analysis
- Instrumentation and diagnostic techniques
Innovative Confinement Concept for Fusion Propulsion to the Moon and Mars
Papers are solicited that investigate all aspects for utilizing indigenous space materials for propulsion for lunar and Mars missions. Topics of interest for these sessions include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Production of propellants
- Theoretical and experimental designs
- Theoretical evaluations of engine performance
- Analyses on the benefits of in-situ technologies for current and future missions
Advanced Propulsion Concepts for Future Flight Organizer
JOHN W. ROBINSON
The Boeing Company
P.O. Box 3829
Seal Beach, CA 97040
714.896.1292 • Fax: 714.896.6930
John.W.Robinson2@boeing.com
Energetic Components and Systems
Papers are solicited in the areas of energetic components and systems and their applications. Energetic systems provide for the release of controlled and directed explosive energy to perform a variety of functions in a multitude of applications. Energetic systems are defined as any component or system containing or operated by explosive materials. International submissions are encouraged. The sessions are sponsored by the AIAA Energetic Components and Systems Technical Committee. Please contact the organizer listed below for more information.
Topics of interest for these sessions include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Applications and requirements for civilian and military aircraft, space vehicles and missiles, automotive safety, mining, and controlled demolition
- Electro-explosive devices, initiators, detonators, gas generators, igniters and their initiation systems (which may include hot bridge wire, exploding bridge wire, exploding foil, laser/fiber optics, or semiconductor bridge elements) and explosive energy transfer products, including detonating cord, thin layer explosive, linear shaped charge, and through bulkhead initiators
- Explosively actuated devices, including severing/penetration charges, expanding tube/bellows separation systems, explosive bolts, frangible nuts, separation nuts, pin pullers, bolt cutters, cable cutters, pyrovalves, and safe/arm devices
- Lessons learned and education
- Modeling and simulations of energetic components/systems
- Energetic material chemistry, including synthesis, characterization, compatibility, and aging, and analysis techniques as applied to ordnance applications
- Nontraditional topics other than those listed
Energetic Components and Systems Organizer
HOBIN LEE
Scot Incorporated Engineering
2525 Curtiss Street
Downers Grove, IL 60515
630.969.0620 ext. 361 • Fax: 630.512.9985
Hslee@scotinc.com
Nuclear and Future Flight Propulsion
Papers are solicited that address all aspects of future concepts in propulsion. The sessions are supported by the AIAA Nuclear and Future Flight Propulsion Technical Committee. Please contact the organizer listed below for more information. Topics of interest are as follows:
Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
Papers are requested on all aspects of Nuclear Thermal Rocket (NTR) propulsion design, testing, and utilization for future robotic and human exploration missions of the solar system. Topics of interest for these sessions include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Bimodal solid core NTR concepts capable of producing both thrust and electrical power for enhanced stage/vehicle operations
- Bimodal NTR system for human Mars exploration
- Bimodal NTR spacecraft and mission design
- Common gas-cooled reactor design for both propulsion and closed surface power generation
- Candidate bimodal nuclear fuel options
- Reactor controls and shielding requirements
- Ground test facility options to accommodate both propulsive and power modes of engine operation
- Prospects for commercial space activities that could be enabled by NTR systems
Fusion Energy in Space Propulsion
- Fusion energy in space propulsion
- Inertial electrostatic confinement
- Magnetically insulated inertial
- Fission/fusion hybrid
- Concepts that utilize fusion reactions directly or indirectly
Future Flight Propulsion Systems
Papers are solicited that present advanced concepts for both near- and far-term future space propulsion. Some specific topics include technologies that promise significant gains in specific impulse, such as the following:
- High-energy fuels
- Novel fusion concepts
- Antimatter engines
- Laser or microwave propulsion
- Mass drivers
- Interstellar propulsion
- Breakthrough propulsion physics, including:
- Fundamental physics of space–time, motion, forces, and energy exchange
- Possible coupling between electromagnetism, inertia, and gravitation
- Creation or modification of general relativistic space–time topologies
- Properties of the quantum vacuum
Nuclear and Future Flight Propulsion Organizer
BRICE CASSENTI
University of Connecticut
Mechanical Engineering Department
191 Auditorium Road U-3139
Storrs, CT 06269-3139
860.486.4939 • Fax: 860.486.5088
Cassenti@engr.uconn.edu
Propellants and Combustion
Papers are solicited that describe recent experimental, theoretical, and numerical work in all areas related to the combustion of liquid, solid, and gaseous fuels in air-breathing, rocket, and underwater propulsion systems. An award will be given for the best paper. These sessions are jointly sponsored by the AIAA Propellants and Combustion Technical Committee and the ASME Propulsion Committee. Please contact the organizer listed below for more information.
Papers covering a broad range of topics are sought. These topics include, but are not limited to:
Propellant and Fuel Development (Green Fuels)
Future propellants with special emphasis on “green propellants”: those with minimal environmental impact. Topics include, but are not limited to, formulations and physical chemical properties of fuels including characterization by surrogates, hazards, safety evaluation, materials compatibility, applications to propulsion devices, high-energy and high-density fuels and materials, propellants for operation under extreme thermodynamic conditions, thermal stability of fuels and propellants, reformed fuels, implications of rising oil prices on jet propellants, and in situ propellant production concepts for military contingencies and planetary missions.
Combustion Diagnostics
Development, assessment, and calibration of advanced diagnostic techniques related to fundamental experiments or their applications to practical combustion devices.
Spray Combustion
Spray flame characteristics; supercritical droplet combustion; design of fuel spray systems; break-up behavior; non-dilute spray characteristics encountered in propulsion combustors.
Fundamental Combustion Processes I and II
Ignition; laminar and turbulent flame propagation and extinction; detonation; chemical kinetics; infrared radiation from gas flames of gas turbine combustors; lean pre-vaporized premixed combustion systems; other transport processes in gas, liquid, solid, or mixed systems.
Combustion Modeling
Reynolds-averaged turbulent combustion models, sub-grid scale turbulent combustion models for large eddy simulations, other methods for capturing turbulent transport and fluid-chemistry interactions. Strategies for model implementation in computational tools influence of initial and boundary conditions, numerical diffusion, etc.
Combustion Dynamics/Detonations
Mechanisms of combustion instability in gas turbine and rocket combustors and augmentors. Instability suppression techniques. Detonation physics; applications to pulse detonation engines.
Hybrid Combustion Systems
Chemical reaction in power/propulsion systems consisting of two or more integrated, chemically reacting components. Examples include fuel cells and reformers integrated with conventional combustors to provide propulsive and electric power, and endothermic reactors integrated with scramjet combustors to provide leading edge cooling and fuel cracking.
Micro-Scale Combustion
Combustion in miniaturized propulsion systems with special emphasis on combustion in channels/ passages with characteristic dimensions of the order or smaller than the flame thickness. System performance scaling and role of fluid structure coupling.
Propellants and Combustion Organizer
JULIAN TISHKOFF
Program Manager, Combustion and Diagnostics
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
875 North Randolph Street
Suite 325, Room 3112
Arlington, VA 22203-1768
703.696.8478 • Fax: 703.696.8451
Julian.Tishkoff@afosr.af.mil
Emerging Conversion Propulsion Systems
There is a wide variety of emerging space transportation companies, comprised of relatively small groups of people, that are experiencing the first-hand thrill of “making fire and smoke” by building and testing their own rocket propulsion systems. The level of maturity of these activities range from the high-powered amateur level to a class that rivals the EELVs of the United Launch Alliance. Amazingly, a vast majority of these emerging space transportation companies undertake the challenge of designing and building their own rocket propulsion systems from scratch. Since the initiation of the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE competition, in which there were 23 registered teams, approximately one quarter of the teams actually developed and tested rocket propulsion systems. Today, in response to the NASA Centennial Challenges’ “Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge” (administered by the XPRIZE Foundation), another half- dozen rocket propulsion systems are being designed, built, and tested. All this is in addition to the companies who are not participating in the prize competitions, but are pursuing existing or potential commercial and civil space markets.
Papers in this session can focus on the methods, techniques, results, innovations, etc., of one or more of the following aspects of the emerging commercial rocket propulsion systems:
- Design
- Analysis
- Development
- Manufacture
- Testing
- Technical Performance
- Operation
Emerging Commercial Propulsion Systems Organizer
KEN DAVIDIAN
FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation
800 Independence Avenue SW, Suite 331
Washington, DC 20591
202.267.7214 • Fax: 202.267.5463
Ken.Davidian@faa.gov
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Air-Breathing, Propulsion, Combined Cycle Systems, and Components Sessions
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Papers are solicited on all aspects of air breathing propulsion for military and commercial air vehicles operating in all flight regimes. Papers can be empirical or analytical, address development or operational system aspects, discuss ground and flight-testing techniques and results, or adopt a component- or system-level focus.
Air-Breathing Propulsion Systems Integration
Air-Breathing Propulsion Systems Integration Papers are solicited in all aspects of air-breathing propulsion systems integration including: a) installed performance and controls; propulsion aerodynamics, inlet and nozzle systems; c) power and thermal management; and d) propulsion system/ air vehicle interface and certification.
The sessions are jointly sponsored by the AIAA Air-Breathing Propulsion Systems Integration Technical Committee, the SAE Aircraft Propulsion Committee and Turbomachinery Committee, and the ASME Propulsion Technical Committee. Please submit abstracts in one of the four organizational areas below (refer to the details below or contact the organizer listed below for more information:
- Aerodynamic Performance
- Subsystems Integration
- Propellers/Pistons/Turboprops
- Requirements Verification, Certification, and Testing
The aerodynamic performance organizational area includes the development and integration of aircraft inlets, nozzles and exhaust systems. Emphasis is given to computational results, experimental results and comparisons of computational and experimental results (including sub-scale and flight components), component optimization and inlet and exhaust system design techniques at speeds ranging from subsonic through hypersonic. Areas of interest include:
- Jet effects
- Thrust vectoring
- Area control
- Flow control application including scaling effects
- Aircraft performance
- Nacelle/wing interaction
- STOVL
- Structural integration of inlets and exhaust systems
- Thrust reversers
- Real world operation environmental issues (corrosion, icing, sand, rain, bird strike, etc.)
- Acoustics and acoustic treatments
- Affect of inlet and nozzle on sonic boom
- Survivability
The subsystems integration organizational area include:
- Integrated flight/propulsion control, hardware/software integration
- Power/thermal management—integrated propulsion/power/thermal architecture, all electric architectures, power/fluid systems integration, environmental control system integration, thermal management systems
- Engine physical integration—performance-based specification development, interface control & associate contractor/supplier management
- Propulsion operations—reliability & maintainability, field support, removal & installation, and overhaul & maintenance.
The propellers, pistons and turboprops organizational area addresses all aspects of air-breathing propulsion system integration. The requirements verification, certification, and testing organizational area addresses all aspects of air-breathing propulsion integration certification and Testing including FAA compliance and regulations.
Air-Breathing Propulsion Systems Integration Organizer
DONALD MALLOY
Aerospace Testing Alliance
1099 Schriever Ave.
Arnold AFB, TN 37389-9013
931.454.4112 • Fax: 931.454.3644
donald.malloy@arnold.af.mil
Gas Turbine Engines
Papers are solicited in the disciplines of mechanical design, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics as related to the science and technology of air vehicle gas turbine engines and engine components in the subsonic and transonic flight regimes. The sessions are jointly sponsored by the AIAA Gas Turbine Engine Technical Committee, the SAE Aircraft Propulsion Committee and Turbomachinery Committee, and the ASME Propulsion Technical Committee. Please contact the organizer listed below for more information.
Topics of interest for these sessions include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Experimental and computational efforts related to inlets, fans, compressors, combustors, turbines, augmentors, transmissions, bearings, seals, and nozzles
- Techniques for the advancement of engine component technologies, including design and manufacturing methods, materials, testing, diagnostics, and instrumentation
- Improved analytical/computational methodologies for fluid, thermal, and structural analysis of engine components
- Analytical and computational models for engine level analysis/simulation
- Advances in turbine engine systems and components
- Advanced engine cycles and game-changing component technologies
- Engine preliminary and detailed design methodologies
- Variable cycle engines\Turbomachinery noise
- Engine icing
- Electric power generation
- Comparisons of engine flight test with ground test data and simulation results
- Auxiliary systems and structures, and their interaction with the primary engine system
Gas-Turbine Engine Organizer
JANET CONVERY
GE Aviation
One Neumann Way, MD F126
Cincinnati, OH 45215
513.243.1785 • Fax: 513.243.1785
Janet.Convery@ge.com
Hypersonic and High Speed Air-Breathing Propulsion
Papers are solicited for all forms of air-breathing hypersonic and combined cycle propulsion systems, as well as high speed air-breathing propulsion systems used in the full spectrum of aircraft, space launch vehicles, and missiles. The sessions are jointly sponsored by the AIAA Hypersonic Technology and Aerospace Plane Program Committee, the AIAA High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion Technical Committee, the SAE Hypersonics Committee, and the ASME Propulsion Technical Committee. Please contact the organizer(s) listed below for more information.
Topics of interest for these sessions include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Ramjet, scramjet, and combined cycle (TBCC, RBCC, etc.) engines using hydrogen, hydrocarbon or alternate fuels
- Engine components such as combustors, injectors, inlets, and MHD generators for power generation
- The use of plasmas to modify shock structure and combustion
- Ground and flight test of hypersonic propulsion systems
- Control systems
- Applications for reusable launch vehicles, including single - and multiple-stage to orbit launch vehicle concepts
- Flight demonstrator research vehicle concepts
- Combined cycle engine system design and development
- Combined cycle engine analysis, optimization, and performance prediction
- Internal/external flow CFD analyses
- Innovative propellant management concepts
- System demonstration/validation plans
- Component development status
- Engine life-cycle costs
- Mission requirements
- Vehicle/engine integration and performance, engine thrust and LSP, mass fraction
- Ramjet, scramjet, and combined cycle engine air inlets, including inlet airflow, inlet boundary layer considerations, bleed/bypass, and shock positioning requirements
- Ramjets, scramjets, including combustors and combustion, fuel injection, flame holders, ramjet/scramjet transition, and fuel heating/thermal management
- Propellants, including propellant handling, air liquefaction, slush hydrogen, and bi/tri propellants
- Pulse detonation engines, including: detonation initiation, propagation, and practical design, including fuel system, mechanical and thermal design, inlet system, and system integration
- High-fidelity propulsion system simulations discussing physics-based subsystem and system simulation methods and technologies including validation, simulation frameworks, variable fidelity analysis, visualization environments and high performance computing
Hypersonic and Combined Cycle Propulsion Organizer
RYAN STARKEY
University of Colorado at Boulder
Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Engineering Center, ECAE 115, 429 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0429
303.492.0871• Fax: 303.492.7881
RStarkey@Colorado.edu
High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion Organizer
ADAM RASHEED
GE Global Research
Room ES-201
One Research Circle
Niskayuna, NY 12309
518.387.4608 • Fax: 518.387.7258
Rasheed@research.ge.com
System Concepts and Supporting Propulsion Technologies
Papers are solicited for the full spectrum of aircraft, space launch vehicles, and missiles. The sessions are jointly sponsored by the ASME Propulsion Technical Committee and the AIAA Air Breathing Propulsion Systems Integration Technical Committee. Please submit abstracts in one of the five organizational areas below (contact the below organizer for more information).
- Hybrid, Distributed, and other Technologies for Intelligent and Robust Propulsion Control Systems
- Integrated Modeling and Simulation in Systems
- Engineering and Analysis for Propulsion Systems
- Design
- Prognostics, Diagnostics, and Condition-Based Maintenance
- Sensing and Measuring Technologies for Propulsion Systems and Propulsion Controls
- Advanced Seal Technology
Papers are requested describing recent developments in: a) system-level trade studies evaluating competing sealing approaches on the basis of performance metrics (specific fuel consumption, specific impulse, direct operating cost savings, thermal management, other); b) new seal design concepts and sealing approaches showing promise of meeting performance requirements; c) methods for seal design and predicting seal performance under service conditions; d) coupled techniques (experimental or analytical) to assess the interaction between the seal, cavity, and main flows; e) test results demonstrating concept feasibility under simulated/actual conditions, and description of novel test rigs used to evaluate seal concept performance; and f) seal material advancements, including improved materials for low wear and long life and seal tri-bological evaluations.
System Concepts and Supporting Propulsion Technologies Organizer
DONALD MALLOY
Aerospace Testing Alliance
1099 Schriever Ave.
Arnold AFB, TN 37389-9013
931.454.4112 • Fax: 931.454.3644
Donald.Malloy@arnold.af.mil
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History and Education Sesssions
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History Sessions
Papers are solicited on any aspect of aviation or space history—especially papers on vehicle propulsion and propulsion systems. Possible topics might be the technological trajectory of specific propulsion systems, transition from government (NASA & USAF) to commercial provision (and transitions), historic aircraft/launch vehicle systems, test program summaries, aircraft/launch overviews, and corporate histories. The sessions will be sponsored by the AIAA History Technical Committee. Please contact the session organizer for more information.
History Organizer
DAVID J. WHALEN
John D. Odegard School of Aero Science
Stop 9008
4149 University Avenue
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9008
701.777.3558 • Fax: 701.777.3711
Whalen@space.edu
Propulsion Education
Papers are solicited from both universities and industry on topics relating to all aspects of propulsion education and research. Sessions are planned for K-16 Outreach and University Initiatives in Propulsion. K-12 teachers are encouraged to submit case study papers on new projects involving propulsion concepts. Areas of interest include air-breathing, rocket, and advanced propulsion systems, subsystems, and component analysis and design course work as implemented for both graduate and undergraduate programs. Industry papers of interest include desired attributes of next-generation engineers and examples of successful industry/education outreach programs.
The sessions are sponsored by the ASEE Propulsion Education Committee. Please contact the organizer listed below for more information. Topics of interest include the following:
- K-16 educational outreach case studies
- Industry-desired attributes of new engineers
- University/industry initiatives in propulsion education/research
- University capabilities in propulsion education/research-institutional summary
- Student design projects/experiments
- Software tools for propulsion education
- International propulsion projects
- Propulsion laboratories
Propulsion Education Organizer
ROBERT A. FREDERICK JR.
UAH Propulsion Research Center
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
5000 Technology Drive, TH S226
Huntsville, AL 35899
256.824.7200 • Fax: 256.824.7205
Robert.Frederick@uah.edu
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Rockets and Space Propulsion Sessions
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Space and Earth-to-Orbit Vehicle Systems
Space Transportation and Future Space Transportation sessions are sponsored by the AIAA Space Transportation Technical Committee and the ASME Propulsion Committee. In these sessions, special emphasis will be given to propulsion system and launch vehicle developments associated with contemporary commercial, military and civil programs. For more information please contact the session organizer listed below. Topics of interest for these sessions include, but are not limited to, the following:
Space Transportation
Papers are sought for sessions on space transportation including enabling technologies and economics. Of particular interest are papers that address propulsion system impact on performance, reuse, operability, and overall mission effectiveness of space transportation systems. Space transportation systems may include expendable launch vehicles, reusable launch vehicles, missiles, and upper stage and orbital transfer vehicles. Papers are sought for space transportation topics, including, but not limited to, commercial, civil, and military systems; cost modeling; performance safety, reliability, and maintainability; and environmental aspects.
Future Generation Space Transportation
This session set is directed to presentations of advanced fully reusable space transport vehicle and propulsion system concepts. Future civil, military and commercial space transport missions are to be addressed, such as envisioned Spaceliner-/Spacelifter-class systems featuring aircraft-like mission dependability, flight safety, and overall affordability. Papers are solicited that present the latest thinking in system design and operations, relating key enabling and enhancing technologies. Innovative development and demonstration program approaches are of interest, including the use of X-vehicle flight testing and early prototyping.
Space Vehicle Systems
Space Vehicle Systems sessions are sponsored by the ASME Propulsion Committee. For more information please contact the session organizer listed below. Topics of interest for these sessions include, but are not limited to, the following: Space vehicle technologies needed for reliable, cost effective upper stages, and vehicles for Earth-orbit operation; transfer to and return from the moon, Mars, and other planets; and ascent/descent vehicles for planetary surface operations. Suggested topics should focus on technologies for space vehicles, and include, but are not limited to, propulsion system concepts, operational efficiency, and autonomous and fault-tolerant systems.
Space Transportation and Future Generation Space Transportation Sessions Organizer
LEO DANIEL
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aeronautics and Astronautics
77 Massachusetts Ave, Bldg 37-371
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
617.253.5199 • Fax: 617.253.0361
leo@mit.edu
Space Vehicle Systems Organizer
JOHN W. ROBINSON
The Boeing Company
P.O. Box 3829
Seal Beach, CA 90740
714.896.1292 • Fax: 714.934.0357
John.W.Robinson2@boeing.com"
Electronic Propulsion
Papers are solicited in all areas of electric propulsion, such as:
- Hall thrusters
- Ion thrusters
- Field emission thrusters, colloid thrusters, and other micropropulsion concepts
- MPD, PPT, and PIT thrusters
- Resistojets and arcjets
- Advanced thruster concepts
- Other electrothermal, electromagnetic, or electrostatic thruster concepts
- Innovative or advanced electric propulsion systems
For the concepts or systems listed above, the topics of interest include:
- Fundamental physics
- Analytical modeling
- Numerical simulations
- Laboratory and space testing
- Diagnostics
- Lifetime characterization
- Mission analysis
- Systems analysis
- Development programs
- Flight programs
- Other applications
The sessions will be sponsored by the AIAA Electric Propulsion Technical Committee and the ASME Propulsion Committee. Please contact the below organizer for more information.
Electric Propulsion Organizer
KURT POLZIN
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
ER24
Huntsville, AL 35812
256.544.5513 • Fax: 256.544.2216
Kurt.A.Polzin@nasa.gov
Liquid Rocket Propulsion
The sessions will be jointly sponsored by the AIAA Liquid Propulsion Technical Committee, the SAE Space Transportation and Propulsion Technical Committee, and the ASME Propulsion Committee. Please contact the organizer listed below for more information. Unclassified papers are solicited in all areas of liquid propulsion technology, including propulsion system applications, engine development and testing, fluid control instrumentation, pressurant, and propellant storage. Studies that involve unique or new applications for next generation propulsion solutions are of particular interest. Topics of interest for these sessions include, but are not limited to, the following:
Liquid Rocket Engine and Propulsion Systems
- Domestic/foreign expendable and reusable launch vehicle propulsion for booster, upper stage, and single stage to orbit applications
- Space vehicle propulsion for orbital, de-orbit and interplanetary applications
- Liquid engine and propulsion systems for exploration systems and programs
- Propulsion systems utilizing non-toxic propellants and associated technologies
- Propulsion subsystem, analysis, and testing associated with NASA’s Constellation University Institutes Project (CUIP)
Liquid Rocket Engine and Propulsion System Components
- Ignition systems such as combustion wave, laser, advanced torch, and hypergolic
- Engine combustion chamber design and analysis including coolant channels, innovative concepts, heat transfer, manufacturing processes, and materials
- Injector design and analysis, innovative concepts, manufacturing processes, materials, and testing
- Nozzle design, analysis, manufacturing processes, materials, and testing
- Turbomachinery for liquid rocket engines; fluid dynamic analysis, design innovation, manufacturing, materials, and testing
- Combustion device injector design, analysis, manufacturing, materials, and testing
- Lightweight gas storage vessels and propellant tanks; propellant acquisition technology involving positive expulsion or surface tension devices; all phases of design, development, fabrication, materials, testing, ground handling, and flight performance
- Feed systems/fluid management technology; fluid controls, sensors, pressurization, space vehicle servicing, control and health monitoring, on-orbit gauging, and materials compatibility
Feed System Studies: Valves, Tank, and Duct Flows
Papers are solicited on recent accomplishments in all areas related to feed system issues. These topics include experimental studies, CFD methodologies as well as system modeling studies. Of special interest are the following topics:
- CFD/experimental investigations of high pressure gas and cryogenic liquid valves for liquid rocket feed system. Flow instabilities that result in valve chatter, valve sticking, and high dynamic actuation loads are of particular interest.
- Modeling of cryogenic storage tanks including tank pressurization, tank sloshing, and mixing of high temperature gas with cryogenic liquids
- Studies addressing interaction and coupling between system components in liquid rocket feed systems (e.g. inlet feed ducts, cavitating venturis, orifices, valves, etc.)
Modeling and Simulation of Liquid Rocket Engines and Propulsion Systems
- Liquid rocket combustion fluid dynamics, chemical kinetics, engine/system modeling dynamics, and engine/system modeling
- Flow and combustion performance and stability including fuel injection phenomena, combustion stability, injector-chamber coupling, faceplate compatibility, and alternative fuels
Liquid Rocket Propulsion Organizer
MICHAEL J. NUSCA
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
AMSRD-ARL-WM-BD
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005
410.278.6108 • Fax: 410.278.6159
Hybrid Rocket Propulsion
Papers are solicited that address all areas of hybrid propulsion technology including propulsion system applications, engine development and testing, oxidizer and fuel evaluation, and computational studies. These sessions are sponsored by the AIAA Hybrid Rockets Technical Committee. Please contact the organizer listed below for more information. Specific topics of interest for these sessions include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Development and evaluation of novel oxidizer and fuel formulations and combinations
- Injector designs and effect on engine performance and stability
- Physical processes related to oxidizer vaporization, heat transfer, solid-phase to gas phase species evolution, and mixing of oxidizer and fuel species
- Chemical kinetics between fuel and oxidizer species
- Analysis of internal ballistics including predictive capability
- Computational fluid dynamics studies of internal flow fields and combustion
- Design studies including cost and feasibility analysis
- Combustion stability, motor performance, and related issues
- Design and development of novel hybrid rocket motor concepts
- Descriptions of current programs—their objectives and progress to date
Hybrid Rocket Propulsion Organizer
BRIAN EVANS
The Pennsylvania State University
139 Research Building East
University Park, PA 16802
814.863.2264 • Fax: 814.863.5985
Bje134@psu.edu
Solid Rocket Propulsion
Papers are solicited for the solid rocket propulsion sessions. Specific topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Air-launched tactical missile propulsion
- Surface/ground-launched tactical propulsion
- Commercial-launched vehicle propulsion
- Space-launched vehicle propulsion
- Space storable solids
- Strategic propulsion
- Divert and attitude control propulsion
- Missile interceptor propulsion
- Safety, health, and environmental issues
- Rocket motor demilitarization and propellant and ingredient reclamation, reuse and disposal
- Propellant hazards classification; procedures and practices for safe handling, transportation and storage
- Insensitive munitions technology, including advanced cases, active and passive mitigation concepts, and advanced propellants
- Propellant development
- Analysis and evaluation, including internal ballistics prediction, combustion, precision and accuracy, internal flow field assessment, heat transfer, structural/material response, particle impingement on insulation and nozzle, crack/ de-bond propagation, performance, and energy management
- Solid rocket combustion instability
- Safety, reliability, and maintainability
- Materials and component technology relating to nozzles, igniters, safe/arm devices, TVC, and gas generators
- Lessons learned in rocket design, manufacture, qualification, static test, and flight programs
- Composite case technology
- Advanced nozzle technology; advanced composite materials, materials processing, quality control and assurance
- Innovative ignition systems
- Motor-level combustion stability
- Motor temperature stability
- Development/production cost reduction, including modeling and analysis
- Nondestructive diagnostic evaluation of motors or components
- Innovative approaches to qualification of solid rocket motor design
- Solid motor aging evaluation
- Solid rocket motor failure and accident investigations
- Solid rocket motor history
- University initiatives/programs in solid rocket propulsion
- Health monitoring systems for solid rocket motors
- Future technologies
- Solid rocket propulsion for crew exploration vehicle systems
- Controllable solid propulsion/thrust management
Solid Rocket Propulsion Organizer
FRED BLOMSHIELD
NAVAIR China Lake
1900 N. Knox Rd.
M.S. 6204
China Lake, CA 93555-6106
706.939.3650
Fred.Blomshield@navy.mil
In-Space Propulsion Technologies
Papers are solicited in two general areas: In-Space Propulsion Technologies and Lunar and In-Space Propulsion Systems: Operability and Health Management. The sessions are sponsored by NASA’s In-Space Propulsion Technology program and by the AIAA Space Tether Technical Committee. Please contact the organizer listed below for more information. Topics of interest are as follows:
In-Space Propulsion Technologies
Special interest in papers focused on propulsion activities related to sample-return missions will be emphasized. Example applications include propulsion for planetary ascent vehicles, earth-return vehicles, and transfer stages. Papers are also solicited that address non–rocket-based, or “propellantless,” in-space propulsion technologies, such as tether, solar sail, and aerocapture/earth entry vehicle propulsion systems. Additionally papers are solicited for rocket-based in-space propulsion technologies, such as chemical and solar thermal propulsion systems. Topics of interest for these sessions include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Near-term mission concepts
- Innovative system designs, concepts, and requirements
- Technology overviews
- Technology infusion approaches
- Ground testing Advanced development of these propulsion systems
Lunar and In-Space Propulsion Systems: Operability and Health Management
Papers are solicited that deal with the technology requirements, capabilities, and/or architectures in the domain of lunar and in-space propulsion systems that specifically relate to their health management and operability assurance. Papers in this domain could include embedded data and information architectures as well as system robustness, especially relating to health management and system operability assurance. The focus of the session is on multi-use technologies such as adaptive control, relevant sensors and monitoring systems, the application of re-configurable computing, and the use of genetic algorithms. The goal of the session is to promote technical dialogue among the technologists engaged in the development of such systems, to heighten their sensitivity to this need, and to maximize the overall operational system flexibility, reliability, and affordability through the benefits offered by these technologies.
In-Space Propulsion Technologies Organizer
ERIC J. PENCIL
NASA Glenn Research Center
21000 Brookpark Road
Cleveland, OH 44135-3127
216.977.7463 • Fax: 216.433.8311
Eric.J.Pencil@nasa.gov
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Young Professionals
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Young Professionals
Young professionals are encouraged to participate in the Young Professionals Presentation Program, which provides young professionals under the age of 35 with the opportunity to present their work at a national AIAA technical conference. This program integrates young engineers into the regular sessions and allows them to give presentations covering continuing and in-process design or research works, in addition to completed projects. The Young Professionals Presentation program allows for oral presentations only; manuscripts are not required, but are encouraged. The “no paper, no podium” policy is waived for the Young Professionals Presentation Program; published papers are not required. The program is fully supported by the AIAA Technical Activities Committee. Presentation topics should cover work in which the presenting engineer is engaged or is intimately familiar. To submit your work for consideration, submit a brief abstract (500 words or less) to the topic area for which you wish to be considered and mark the presentation “Young Professionals Presentation.” Abstracts must be submitted as specified in this Call for Papers.
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