Topical Advisory Panel
Topical Advisory Panel Members (68)

Interests: rarefied gas dynamics; experimental and numerical activity on jets, micro flows, flows through porous media; Monte Carlo simulations; stability analysis of shear flows; flows with separation; global stability; experimental analysis of aeroacoustics of propellers and jets; analysis of multiphase flows

Interests: transport; aeronautics education; flight training; aviation engineering; decision-making processes; safety and security; impacts of aviation activities on the environment and health; interdisciplinary research on health and human performance, criminology in air transport
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Interests: guidance navigation and control of Space Systems (GNC); orbit and attitude control systems (AOCS); spacecraft formation flying; autonomous rendezvous and docking; visual navigation; space robotics; mission design; spacecraft design; space systems engineering; launchers dynamics and control; GNC for planetary rovers; autonomous space systems

Interests: advanced spacecraft design; spacecraft subsystems development; assembly, integration and verification strategies
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Interests: computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and multiphysics modelling
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Interests: Automotive aerodynamics; Bluff body aerodynamics; Supersonic aerodynamics; Flow control device development; Plasma flow physics

Interests: Fluid–Structure Interaction; Unsteady Aerodynamics; Vortex Particle Methods; Flapping flight; Dynamic Stall
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Interests: fluid power; aeronautics; simulation; optimization; engineering design

Interests: composite solid propellants, liquid storable propellants; metal fuels; green propulsion, launch systems
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Interests: aerodynamics; wind tunnel testing; boundary layers; flow control; aeroacoustics

Interests: aviation and logistics; aviation education and training

Interests: attitude control; spacecraft dynamics and control; nonlinear control
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Interests: space systems design; guidance, navigation and control; space robotics; attitude determination and control; orbit determination; formation flying; space vehicle rendezvous

Interests: fluid mechanics; atmopsheric science; high performance computing

Interests: orbital mechanics, astrodynamics and spacecraft GNC; spacecraft trajectory optimization; orbit determination using GPS; spacecraft navigation and control for asteroid exploration; rendezvous, proximity operations and docking of spacecraft; aircraft flight control; spacecraft attitude determination and control
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Interests: space robotics; spacecraft swarms; extreme environment exploration; neural networks; evolutionary computation; fuel cell power supplies; planetary rovers; spacecraft trajectory design; on-orbit servicing; docking; In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU)
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Interests: experimental measurements of thermophysical properties of liquids, nanofluids, solids, porous media, such as soils, foods, foams, graphene… by thermal probe, dual probe and laser flash methods; heat transfer; fluid-dynamics; theoretical models
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Interests: 4D trajectory optimization, guidance and control; nonlinear filtering; statistical machine learning in aerospace systems; chaotic systems
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Interests: technology of aerospace materials and processes with emphasis in polymers and composites; life cycle assesment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC) modelling of composite materials manufacturing and joining processes; sustainability and recycling of composites; thermoplastics processing; adhesive bonding of polymers and composite materials; multifunctional and self healing composite materials

Interests: dynamics and control of electric aircraft; aerospace vehicles; robotics; UAVs & energy systems
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