Fundamental Aeronautics Program Annual Meeting
October 7 – 9, 2008
The Fundamental Aeronautics 2008 Annual Meeting opens on Monday, October 6, with registration from 4:00 until 7:00 pm, and an opening reception from 6:00 until 7:30 pm. Registration will also be open on Tuesday, October 7, Wednesday, October 8, and Thursday, October 9 from 7:00 am until 4:00 pm.
| Tuesday, October 7, 2008 | |||||
| 8:00 | Opening Remarks, Jaiwon Shin, Associate Administrator, ARMD | ||||
| 8:30 | Fundamental Aeronautics Program Overview, Juan Alonso, Program Director | ||||
| 9:00 | Subsonic Fixed Wing Project Overview, Fayette Collier, Principal Investigator | ||||
| 9:30 | Subsonic Rotary Wing Project Overview, Susan Gorton, Principal Investigator | ||||
| 10:00 | Break | ||||
| 10:30 | Supersonics Project Overview, Peter Coen, Principal Investigator | ||||
| 11:00 | Hypersonics Project Overview, James Pittman, Principal Investigator | ||||
| Noon | Lunch | ||||
| SUBSONIC FIXED WING Advanced Engines for Improved Noise, Emissions, & Performance |
SUBSONIC ROTARY WING Propulsion Discipline Session |
SUPERSONICS Systems Integration, Assessment & Validation/ AeroPropulsoServo-Elasticity |
HYPERSONICS Materials & Structures |
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| 1:30 | Engine Concept Study for an Advanced Single-Aisle Transport | Rotorcraft Propulsion Research and Progress | LaNCETS | Materials and Structures Overview | |
| 2:00 | Turbomachinery Research for Advanced Engine Concepts | Propulsion System Analyses—Preliminary Gas Turbine Characteristics | Integrated Engine Plume Methodology | Electrical Resistance Technique to Monitor SiC Composite Damage | |
| 2:30 | Powered Propulsion Airframe Integration Study in the ARC 11-Ft Transonic Wind Tunnel | Advances in Foil Gas Bearing Performance Prediction and Modeling for Rotorcraft Propulsion Applications | SUP MDAO System Development | Development and Characterization of 3000°F Silicon Carbide Composites | |
| 3:00 | Break | ||||
| 3:30 | Materials Research for Advanced Engine Concepts | Recent Developments in Wide Operability Engines (T700 Results) | High Fidelity MDAO | Environmental Model Development for High-Temperature Composites | |
| 4:00 | Progress Toward SFW N+1 Noise Goals | Gear Windage Modeling Progress-Experimental Validation Status | N+2 System Study and F16XL Modification Study | Characterization of Structurally Integrated TPS for Hypersonic Vehicles | |
| 4:30 | Alternative Fuels Emissions and Performance Test Program | SRW Drive Systems Health Management | Overview of Recent Experimental and Computational Accomplishments for the SemiSpan SuperSonic Transport (S4T) Wind-Tunnel Model | Thermal-Structural Analysis of Structurally Integrated TPS Concepts for HRRLS | |
| 5:15 | Plenary Talk: Neil Stronach, Vice President of Operations, Planning, Control & Reliability, Delta Airlines. | ||||
| Wednesday, October 8, 2008 | |||||
| 8:00-4:00 Airspace Systems Program Workshop: "Integration of Advanced Concepts and Vehicles into the NextGen." Workshop led by Raytheon and Sensis. | |||||
| SUBSONIC FIXED WING Cruise Efficient STOL Aircraft for Improving Capacity of NextGen |
SUBSONIC ROTARY WING Materials, Structures and Acoustics Session |
SUPERSONICS Lightweight Durable Airframes & Engines/Airport Noise |
HYPERSONICS MDAO & GNC |
Sonic Boom Prediction Workshop | |
| 8:00 | Potential Economic Impact of the Hybrid Wing STOL Commercial Aircraft | Feedback Session | Out of Autoclave Process VARTM for High Temperature Composites | Overview of MDAO Activities | USM3D Results |
| 8:30 | RJ CE STOL Aircraft System Benefit Study | Acoustics Discipline Overview | Investigation of Strain Rate Effects on Crack Growth in Graphite-Epoxy Composites with Stiffeners | Development of the HRRLS Reference Vehicle | Airplane Results |
| 9:00 | Distributed Turbo-Electric Propulsion for CE STOL Aircraft | Status of Advanced Fluid Film Wave Bearing Technology for Geared Transmission Systems | Investigation of Strain Rate Effects on Crack Growth in Graphite-Epoxy Composites with Stiffeners | Discrete Event Sim for Ops | FUN3D Results |
| 9:30 | Towards Intelligent Control for Next Generation CE STOL Aircraft | Fundamental Acoustic Design Tool Development and Validation for Rotorcraft External Noise | Uncertainty Analysis | CART-3D Results | |
| 10:00 | Break | ||||
| 10:30 | Wind Tunnel Testing of Powered Lift, ESTOL Configuration Concept 1 | Structures and Materials Discipline Overview | GNC Overview | Summary and Comparisions | |
| 11:00 | Wind Tunnel Testing of Powered Lift, ESTOL Configuration Concept 2 | Performance Evaluation and Modeling of Erosion Resistant Turbine Engine Thermal Barrier Coatings | Status of Jet Noise Prediction for New Supersonic Vehicles | High-Performance Computational Optimal Control via Eliminating Control Variables | |
| 11:30 | Flow-Field Measurement of a CE STOL Model with Blown Flaps | Disk Alloy Machining Studies | Low Noise, Highly Variable Cycle Nozzle for Next Gen Supersonic Aircraft | Impact of Mode Transition on Hypersonic Vehicle Flight Performance | |
| 12:15 | Lunch and Plenary Speaker, "Breaking the Sound Barrier: The Intellectual Breakthroughs in Aerodynamics that Made it Possible," John D. Anderson, Smithsonian Institution, University of Maryland | ||||
| SUBSONIC FIXED WING Feedback Session |
SUBSONIC ROTARY WING Multi-Disciplinary Design + Feedback Session |
SUPERSONICS Airport Noise, High Altitute Emissions, Sonic Boom Methodology |
HYPERSONICS Aero/Aerothermo/ Plasmadynamics (AAP) |
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| 2:00 | Open Forum: Q&A | Framework for Rotorcraft MDAO | Optimized Temporal Control of Jets for Noise Reduction | AAP Overview |
| 2:30 | One-on-One Session No. 1 | Aircraft System Analysis of Technology Benefits to Civil Transport Rotorcraft | Characterization and Simulation of Thermoacoustic Instability in a Low Emissions Combustor Prototype | Hybrid Continuum-Particle Simulation of Hypersonic Nonequilibrium Flow |
| 3:00 | Break | |||
| 3:30 | One-on-One Session No. 2 | NASA Design and Analysis Rotorcraft Code (NDARC) | Active Combustion Control on an LDI Combustor Using Fuel Flow Modulation | Stability Analysis of Hypersonic Boundary Layer Flows |
| 4:00 | One-on-One Session No. 3 | Large Civil Tiltrotor Design Study and Aeromechanics Analysis | Detection and Control of Static and Dynamic Combustor Instability | CESE Multi-Dimensional Flux Method |
| 4:30 | One-on-One Session No. 4 | Open Forum: Q&A | Development of a Model for Predicting the Transmission of Sonic Booms into Buildings | Radiative Transport in Reentry Flows |
| 5:00 | One-on-One Session No. 5 | Feedback Session | Aspects of Interior Sonic Boom Simulation | High-Order Spatial and Temporal Methods for High Speed Flows |
| 5:15 | Low-Boom Sonic Boom Diffraction Around Building Structures | |||
| 6:00 | Sonic Boom Research at JAXA | |||
| 6:30 | Student Session | |||
| Thursday, October 9, 2008 | ||||
| 8:00-4:00 Airspace Systems Program Workshop: "Integration of Advanced Concepts and Vehicles into the NextGen." Workshop led by Raytheon and Sensis. | ||||
| SUBSONIC FIXED WING Tools & Capabilities for SFW R, D, T, & E |
SUBSONIC ROTARY WING Experimental Capabilities and Flight Dynamics and Control |
SUPERSONICS Entry, Descent, and Landing |
HYPERSONICS Propulsion and Propulsion Technology Integration |
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| 8:00 | MDAO Gen 1 and Next Steps | Overview of Experimental Capabilities Discipline | EDL Discipline Overview | An Overview of the FAP Hypersonic Airbreathing Propulsion Technical Discipline |
| 8:30 | Innovative Structural Designs Through Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication Metal Deposition | Large Field PIV System Demonstration | Supersonic Wind Tunnel Tests of Tension Cone Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerators | A Review of Ground and Flight Development Activities of HIFiRE (Flight #2) |
| 9:00 | Experimental Aeroelastic Highlights & Plans of the Subsonic Fixed Wing Project | Blade Deformation System in NFAC | Supersonic EDL Retropropulsion Computational Simulations and Experiments | Gaseous Surrogate Hydrocarbons for a HIFiRE Scramjet that Mimic Opposed Jet Extinction Limits for Cracked JP Fuel |
| 9:30 | Alternative & Renewable Fuels Research Laboratories | Optic-Based Method for Helicopter Tip-Path-Plane Measurement | Advanced Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulation of Deployable Aeroshells | Mode Transition Experimental Data Generation Utilizing the Durable Combustor Rig Hardware |
| 10:00 | Break | |||
| 10:30 | Subsonics Fixed Wing Experimental Capabilities: Summary and Future Plans | Overview of Flight Dynamics and Control Discipline | RANS Simulations Over Deforming Decelerator Geometries | Numerical Simulation of a Co-Axial Supersonic-Combusting Free-Jet Experiment |
| 11:00 | NASA Partnerships and Collaborative Research Ultra High Bypass Cycle Propulsion Concepts | Determining Effects of Time-Varying Rotorcraft Dynamics on Pilot Control | RANS Physical Modeling Improvements for Hypersonic Propulsion Simulations | |
| 11:30 | VMS Heavy-Lift Rotorcraft Simulation Results | An Overview of the FAP Hypersonic Propulsion Technology Integration Discipline | ||
| Noon | Lunch | |||
| SUBSONIC FIXED WING Hybrid Wing/Body Aircraft for Improved Noise & Efficiency |
SUBSONIC ROTARY WING Aeromechanics |
SUPERSONICS (Propulsion & Airfram)/Experimental Capabilities |
HYPERSONICS | |
| 1:30 | HWB System Studies | Overview of Aeromechanics | Micro-ramp Flow Control for Supersonic Inlets | Status of the TBCC Large Scale Inlet Mode Transition Experiment |
| 2:00 | Airframe Development for Hybrid Wing Body Aircraft | SMART Rotor Test Results | Experimental Results of Micro-ramp Flow Control of an Oblique Shock Boundary-Layer Interaction | CFD Results Incorporating an Innovative Bleed Model to Support the TBCC Inlet Mode Transition Experiment |
| 2:30 | Advances in Embedded Engine Technology for Transport Aircraft | Rotorcraft Icing Progress and Plans | Fundamental Analysis and Experiments of Nozzle Plume Effects on Sonic Boom | Integrated/Interactive Hypersonic Propulsion Inlet Design Tool Incorporating a PNS Solver |
| 3:00 | Break | |||
| 3:30 | Progress Toward the Acoustic Assessment of HWB Aircraft | Overview of SRW Aeromechanics CFD using Structured and Unstructured Grids | Supersonic Boundary Layer Transition Prediction | Computational Study of the Air-Augmented Pulse Detonation Rocket Engine |
| 4:00 | BWB Stability & Control: Lessons Learned from Ground Tests | CFD Validation/Slowed Rotor Results | Gulfstream Sonic Boom or Boeing Laminar Flow | ExpCap Discipline Overview |
| 4:30 | X-48B Flight Test Progress Overview | Combustion Powered Actuators (COMPACT) for Aerodynamic Flow Control on Rotorcraft Blades | Sonic Boom Prediction Workshop Summary | Vacuum Ultraviolet Imaging Spectroscopy Instrumentation for the NASA Ames Electric Arc Shock Tube (EAST) Facility |
| 5:00 | Advanced IR System for In-flight Boundary Layer Transition Measurements | NO PLIF Investigation of Hypersonic Transition and Entry Vehicle Reaction Control System (RCS) Jets | ||
| 5:30 | Advances in the Development of Calibrated High-Sensitivity Heat Flux Gages for Hypersonic Applications | |||
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