Featured Speakers
Foundational Research for Digital Engineering
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 8:00 AM
Dr. Venke Sankaran, Chief Scientist for the Aerospace Systems Directorate
Air Force Research Laboratory
Dr. Venke Sankaran, a member of the scientific and professional cadre of senior executives, is the Chief Scientist for the Aerospace Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He advises the director and guides the technical staff in the execution of the directorate's $500M science and technology portfolio in turbine engines, high-speed systems, power & controls, air vehicles, rocket propulsion, and modeling & simulations. He also provides expert technical consultation to Air Force organizations, the Department of Defense, other government agencies, universities and industry. Previously, Dr. Sankaran served as the Senior Scientist for Rocket Propulsion, Aerospace Systems Directorate, where he was responsible for guiding the Air Force and Space Force near- and long-term research and development needs in the field of rocket propulsion. From January 2019 to December 2019, he also served as the Acting Chief Scientist of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research of the Air Force Research Laboratory. In this role, he was the principal science and technology adviser to the director in matters of formulation, planning, managing and integration of the Air Force's $500M basic research investment. The author of more than 200 technical papers, Dr. Sankaran has been actively involved in several funded programs involving rocket propulsion, aerodynamics, hydrodynamics and plasmas. His research has been instrumental in the development of advanced algorithms for extending computational fluid dynamics methods to all flow regimes, including all Mach numbers, viscous-dominated regions, unsteady flows, generalized equations of state and multiphase flows. His research application interests have included solid, liquid and electric propulsion systems, rotorcraft aerodynamics and underwater vehicles. He is an AIAA Associate Fellow and ASME Fellow and received his Ph.D. from Penn State in 1990.
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024 8:00 AM
Dr. Scott A. Morton, Senior Scientist for High Fidelity Modeling and Simulation
Air Force Research Laboratory
Dr. Scott A. Morton, a member of the Scientific and Professional Cadre of Senior Executives, is the Senior Scientist for High Fidelity Modeling and Simulation (M&S), Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. In his role as Senior Scientist for High Fidelity M&S, he serves as the principal scientific authority and independent researcher in the research, development, and implementation of multi-physics, high fidelity modeling and simulation capability and their integration into higher campaign level simulations to meet future Air Force weapons and warfighter capabilities. He also serves as the senior leader driving the strategic direction of M&S for the enterprise and its integration into multi-domain capabilities and concepts. Dr. Morton began his Air Force career in 1985 as a commissioned 2nd Lieutenant through the Reserve Officer Training Corps after graduating from Parks College of St. Louis University. During his career, he received his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the Air Force Institute of Technology. As a civilian, he was an Associate Director of the U.S. Defense Department High Performance Computing Modernization Program with responsibility for software across the enterprise including the Computational Research Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environments (CREATE) Program. He also spent more than 10 years as the Principal Developer of the Kestrel fixed wing aircraft product used by over 1,200 DoD and OEM engineers and scientists. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
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| 15:00 - 16:00 | Panel Discussion:
History of Overset-Grid Methods
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