A 3-day graduate-level course is organized at the University of Athens, comprising of lectures on the fundamentals of re-entry physics and the hypersonic environment in the upper stratosphere and mesosphere and a practical component on preliminary computer aided design and numerical simulation of hypersonic flow around a cone and a waverider model in endoatmospheric flight. Lectures will be delivered by international experts and will outline continuum and kinetic theory methodologies for the numerical solution of the equations of fluid motion within the Earth atmosphere.
The course will take place in Athens Armed Forces Officers' Club and the practical work will be performed using open-source software, pre-installed on the personal computers of the course attendees. Upon successful completion of the course Attendance Certificates will be awarded.