Course Presentation
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.
At the end of the course, attendees will have developed basic understanding of how hypersonic vehicles work, how they can be used for aerospace applications and what is required to design and simulate them. Practical exercises will offer students hands-on experience with CFD simulations of hypersonic flow over a cone and the basics of waverider geometry generation.
It is expected that attendees will have a basic understanding of space systems as well as compressible fluid mechanics and aerodynamics. No prior knowledge of CAD or CFD is required. Instructions on the installation of the required software will be provided on the website. It is expected that registered attendees will have installed the required (open source) software on their private laptops ahead of the meeting.
In the first day of the short course fundamental aspects of Space and Hypersonic systems will be discussed, including an outline of hypesonics and space missions and trends, from academic, industry and defense perspectives, as well as physical modeling and numerical approaches for the solution of the multi-faceted problem of hypersonic flight.
The second and third days will be devoted to the aerodynamic design of and simulation of fluid flow around a hypersonic waverider, using computer aided design (CAD) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) open source software.
The course will take place in Athens Armed Forces Officers' Club.
Generous support of the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, with Dr. Douglas R. Smith as Program Officer, is gratefully acknowledged. The Short Course has also been supported by BETA® who offered their meshing software.
