2/26/2014 Susan Mumm, Aerospace Engineering Media Specialist
Written by Susan Mumm, Aerospace Engineering Media Specialist
The prestigious LS-STO/VKI Lecture Series, rarely held within the United States in its 40-year history, will take place April 7-9, 2014, on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Aerospace Engineering at Illinois will host the series, focusing on Radiation and Gas-Surface Interaction Phenomena in High Speed Re-Entry. AE Assistant Prof. Marco Panesi is organizing the event on the Urbana campus, in conjunction with the esteemed Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is co-sponsoring the event.
High Speed re-entry represents a current challenge for space exploration programs. At such flight conditions, shock layer radiation becomes a substantial part of the heat-transfer to the wall in addition to the Gas-Surface interaction (GSI) phenomena, with possible coupling effects.
The objective of this special course will focus on the extreme re-entry situations where the physical phenomena are much more pronounced and start to interplay. The ground testing capabilities and limitations for high speed re-entry will be reviewed with the associated instrumentation. Radiation modeling as well as the modeling development for GSI in such conditions will be presented. The consistent integration of those high fidelity models into CFD codes will be inspected with their reliability to provide accurate ground-to-flight extrapolation.
Since the 1970s, the STO-VKI Lecture Series has promoted an exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge among a wide audience on an important scientific or applied topic in a fluid mechanics-related field. World-class lecturers, distinguished for their unique contributions to fluid mechanics, are among the invited speakers. For more information, view the event page, or contact Panesi, mpanesi
illinois [dot] edu.