Five Major Fields of Interests

Eucass addresses all enabling sciences of aerospace. These disciplines have been assembled into five groups, each placed under the supervision of a committee of Chairpersons. The five groups are surveyed every second year in the main Eucass conference. They are the substance for five symposia run in parallel. If necessary, joint sessions can be organised for interdisciplinary topics.

Flight Dynamics and GNC

This symposium covers the applications of novel analytical and experimental methods for the analysis and prediction of the flight dynamics of planes, drones, launch vehicles, spacecraft, helicopters, etc.

System Integration on Aircraft and Space/Launch Activities

This symposium is concerned with multidisciplinarity and with integration problems (subjects where separate disciplines interact in synergy) like sloshing of liquid coupling with GNC, Low gravity behaviour of liquid Hydrogen, Aeroacoustics, Aeroelasticity, Buffeting/base Flows structure coupling, Testing methods, Virtual Aircraft, Multidisciplinary Vehicles Analysis, Design and Optimisation.

Structures and Materials

This symposium addresses scientific and engineering developments that enhance aerospace structures and propulsion units with respect to Safety, Performance, Reliability, Environmental Impact, Lifetime Cost. The scope of the Symposium encompasses novel structural concepts and analyses, and developments in materials science and engineering that facilitate these advances in structural design.

Flight Physics

For this Symposium, flight physics includes the science and technology of classical aerodynamics, thermodynamics and thermochemistry. The applications cover external flow over space vehicles and internal flow through vehicle propulsion systems. The speed range is from low subsonic, through transonic, to supersonic and hypersonic speeds.

In particular the following topics will be addressed:

Propulsion Physics

The scope of this symposium encompasses new developments in engines and propellants modelling and testing with the underlying themes.