Abstracts Due: Friday, May 24, 2024
Final Paper/Presentation Due: Monday, August 5, 2024
Paper Session Topics
The four technical areas of focus for TFAWS 2024 are: Passive Thermal Control, Active Thermal/Fluids/Life Support, Aerothermal, and Cryogenic. An interdisciplinary session will also be included for those submissions that do not fit in a single category. Descriptions of each technical area of focus are shown below.
Passive Thermal
- Passive thermal systems & control: design, analysis, build, and test for space and aeronautics
- Spacecraft thermal protection systems, ablative systems, plume impingement, ascent and entry aerothermal heating
- Radiative heat transfer, analytical and experimental approaches
- Studies related to MLI, coatings, thermophysical/optical properties, and surface finishes
- Ground test, manufacturing processes, and simulation
- Analytical model correlation to existing test or flight data
Active Thermal/Fluids/Life Support
- Fluids system & CFD; Design, analysis, build, and test for space and aeronautics
- Active thermal systems and control: mechanical pumped fluid loops, methods for achieving variable conductance, thermal/fluids systems components, analysis, and testing.
Life Support
- Life support: environmental control and life support systems
- Analytical model correlation to existing test or flight data
Aerothermal
- Aerothermodynamics: design, analysis, build, and test for space and aeronautics
- Aeroheating environments: ascent, on-orbit, re-entry
- Aerothermodynamic performance in planetary atmospheres
- Heating due to high-speed flight and jet and rocket plume impingement
- Free molecular heat transfer, analytical and experimental approaches
- Analytical model correlation to existing test or flight data
Cryogenics
- Cryogenic system design: analysis, design, build, and test
- Cryogenic Fluid Management (CFM)
- Gas compression technologies
- Passive multistage cryogenic radiators
Interdisciplinary
- Multi-disciplinary problems: design, analysis, build, and test for space and aeronautics
- Integrated analyses of chemical reactions, electromagnetic interactions, micromechanics, structural motion
- Technology innovations, current and in-development
- Creating environments of inclusion to enable innovation
- Lessons learned
- Various fluid management and modeling techniques as applied to propulsion
- Modeling or testing error approximation and verification/validation techniques
We are open to a broad range of topics related to thermal/fluid systems, so please contact us if you are unsure which session category your paper falls under. Note that papers are not to be submitted for the purpose of advertising a software product’s features and capabilities. The intent is to present ongoing and accomplished work in support of a program or project.
Submission Instructions:
To submit an abstract, use go to our abstract submission page.
If submitting a paper, please consider using our TFAWS Paper Template (Coming Soon).
When submitting a presentation, please consider using our TFAWS Presentation Template (Coming Soon).
Instructions on how to submit papers and presentations will follow abstract acceptance.
Questions regarding abstracts, papers, or presentations should be sent to GRC-TFAWS2024-Papers@mail.nasa.gov.