61st Course of Hypersonic Meteoroid Entry Physics of the International School of Quantum Electronics Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture 3-8 October 2017 Erice (Italy)
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Entry Physics The Course deals with the complex phenomenology of meteoroid entry in the Earth atmosphere, in the framework of the theoretical and experimental methodologies developed in the investigation of hypersonic entry of space vehicles and in this sense it can be regarded as a continuation of the 53rd! Course “MOLECULAR PHYSICS AND PLASMAS IN HYPERSONICS II” of the School of QUANTUM ELECTRONICS held in 2012. The lectures will give the fundamentals of meteoroid science considering the different topics relevant to observation, diagnostics and simulation. The state of the art of the meteoroid entry state physics will be assessed focusing on physical, chemical and engineering aspects, from the description of the ablation and fragmentation processes, to the insight in the CFD simulation of the plasma interaction with meteoroids/meteorites entering the atmosphere at hypersonic velocities, taking into account turbulence and including advanced chemical physical models coupling the kinetics of elementary processes and the radiation field. The relevant experimental methodologies will be identified considering the available ground test facilities in high-enthalpy wind tunnels, shock tubes and plasma torches and also describing techniques for elemental analysis for diagnostics. Moreover the CFD analysis of test cases for artificial and natural meteoroids will be reviewed. The lectures are organized in sessions and scientists, physicists and engineers, with internationally acknowledged expertise in the different field, have been invited to be lecturers in the Course. To stimulate the discussion on these themes, two Round Tables are planned, one mainly intended to identify a possible H2020 call or international/national funded research projects, to design a cooperation activity and to create a network of research laboratories. The second Round Table, entitled “METEOROID ENTRY PHYSICS FUTURE CHALLENGES”, is intended as an open discussion involving researchers and the space agencies to identify the main issues, and it will follow a special session co-chaired by Prof! Marcello! Onofri (Presidente Cluster Tecnologico Nazionale Aerospazio CTNA) and Ing Salvatore Borrelli (Responsabile settore SPAZIO – Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali CIRA) where the ASI (S Ianelli, M Castronuovo), ESA (J Longo), ESRIN (G Tumino) and Space Research Centers (CIRA, VKI, DTA-Distretto Tecnologico Aerospaziale, SITAEL) have been invited to give an overview of the running and future programmes. Moreover a Poster Session is planned to allow all participants to present the results of their research activity. The Course could be regarded as a high-level training for PhD students and young researchers and will also represent a unique chance of meeting scientists of different Institutions and belonging to different communities, in the perspective of international cooperation of European Laboratories with Research Institutions in US and in the Russian Academy of Sciences on this subject in view of the space agency activities. Attendees are kindly requested to complete the on-line registration form before July 1st and are invited to submit a contribution for the poster session.
Email
[email protected] Website http://users.ba.cnr.it/imip/cscpal38/HYMEP
Mario Capitelli Gianpiero Colonna Annarita Laricchiuta The Directors of the Course PLASMI LAB CNR NANOTEC Bari (Italy)
