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PROVISIONAL AGENDA / ISSUES |
DAY 1 – Strategic / Economic / Political/Collaborative
- Market vision – for aerodynamic, aeroacoustic & aeroelastic testing (Keynote)
- What are the future North America & global industry requirements for wind tunnel facility infrastructure?
- What political & security imperatives will drive the US, European, Asian & other global wind tunnel infrastructure future investment cycles?
- DOD, NASA, Education & Private Industry – what is the big picture on future demand & market opportunity?
- Inter-market technical competitiveness
- Long term cyclical trends in facility demand / utilization
- What are the growth factors influencing actual facility utilizations?
- What are the complimentary testing approaches and their effect on test facilities: computational fluid dynamics?
- Infrastructure globalization: Can international facilities be used as back ups?
- Future challenge – state of private funding ?
- Civil & Military collaborative strategies & opportunities
- Government investment in national / regional wind tunnel capability
- Meeting underutilization issues & challenges
- New market ‘high growth’ transportation economy opportunities – India / China
- What upgrades and new facilities are needed in the future?
- What are the research, design, and production issues for high performance transports?
- Commercial clusters / groupings – meeting the market customer needs
- Global association agendas – advancing operations & practices / where next ?
DAY 2 – New Technology / Facility Management
- Technology Vision – meeting the aerodynamic, stability, control & propulsion parameters for the next generation (keynote)
- Hypersonic current & financial research – meeting the challenges?
- What are the specific predictive testing needs today and in the future?
- Advanced Defense system for the next generation – how can the global wind tunnel industries ensure meeting the challenges ?
- Wind Tunnel management business modelling trends?
- Facility management , scheduling & accounting strategies
- Minimizing wind tunnel running costs
- What improvements are needed to conventional Wind Tunnels ?
- What are the identifiable needs in existing test plans?
- What are the identifiable needs in existing test plans?
- Data Acquisition & Processing: Future sensing, data acquisition, signal conditioning & instrumentation challenges - meeting the challenges for future RDT & E advanced program requirements.
- Computational predictive advances / virtual wind tunnels – their place for future program needs
- Flight Testing / CFD / Wind tunnel optimum risk strategies for future program managers
- Wind tunnel design
- Process control technologies for the next generation wind tunnels
- Model design & manufacturing – advanced technology & model support strategy
- Maintenance & Repair challenges for current & future wind tunnel industries
- International Research centre / Wind Tunnel collaborations
- High Speed Digital imaging – next generation technology to meet future program needs
- Developments in project management procedures & Quality control
- Future wind tunnel design – compression & storage / flow control technologies
- Wind Tunnel recruitment /training & future skills base
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