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Presenters may use the official TFAWS 2025 presentation template, but are also welcome to use their own if preferred.
Session Topics
The technical areas of focus for TFAWS 2025 are: Thermal Control & Protection, Aerosciences, 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.
Thermal Control & Protection
Passive Thermal Technologies
- 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, windows, surface finishes and their thermophysical/optical properties
- Simulation and analytical model correlation to existing test or flight data
Active Thermal and Fluidic Technologies
- 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.
Means and Methods of Characterizing Thermal Systems
- Development, characterization, and test of thermal instrumentation
- Ground test facilities
- Computational methods
Aerosciences
- 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
- Rarefied flows
- Roughness-induced transition for hypersonic vehicles
- Dynamic Stability
- Ground facility modeling and experiments
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 work falls under. Note that presentations and posters 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:
Abstracts for presentations and posters must be submitted using the abstract submission form.
Abstracts can be 200-1000 words and should include the following:
- A title and description of the poster or presentation to be submitted
- An indication of what is unique about the work
- An assessment of data, results and conclusions that are available
- A status of the state of the work (concept, development, testing, completed study)
Instructions on how to submit presentations and posters will follow abstract acceptance.
Questions regarding abstracts, posters, or presentations should be sent to ARC-TFAWS2025@mail.nasa.gov.