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COMMUNICATION
EUCASS is offering two conferences
with great relevance to energy this year
The state of the art in European Aeronautics and
Space will be presented in July at the seventh
EUCASS conference. The gathering will be hosted
by POLIMI in Milano (http://www.eucass2017.eu/).
We’ll be over 600 participants among the best professionals
in Continental Europe, Russia included. A significant number
of experts from all other continents are also joining. Indeed,
EUCASS, the European Conference for Aero-Space Sciences,
is the second largest scientific conference on the continental • Etc..
scale after AIAA’s SciTech in the USA. The association was
launched in 2004 and ran its first ever conference in Moscow
in 2005. Since then, this biennial event has set foot in the
major European countries engaged in aeronautics and space.
The agenda this July will comprise:
• 600 presentations on all of the relevant enabling sciences,
organised in workshops and five major symposia;
• comprehensive reviews of the main European aeronautics
and space programmes;
• lectures from decision makers about future programmes
on launchers, space missions, flight economy in
commercial aviation, ATM, etc.
In many ways, the conference is singular. Its focus is mainly
on enabling sciences and R&T. At the outset, its programme
is structured to stimulate cross-fertilisation between the
two domains aeronautics and space. This year it will
also showcase the virtues of multidisciplinary research
management and present some of its success stories.
Cross fertilisation and multidisciplinarity can be very fecund fluid flows or in control of flames and pollution. The 20 best
if implemented in partnership with other end users in the
field of energy. Consider for instance launching or further
developing bridges between:
• Helicopter rotor and windmill developments;
• Electric/hybrid propulsion of passenger planes and
If you believe you do have a presentation that could be of interest to us, please contact taran@onera.fr
ground production of electricity and/or hydrogen;
• Surveillance of power lines, motorways and railroad
tracks with automated or remotely controlled drones;
• Development and storage of alternative fuels;
• Advanced methods using pulsed high pressure plasmas
for flow and combustion control;
Join us in a two-way exchange. You may have solutions
unknown of the aerospace world and vice versa. Joining
our EUCASS 2017 conference may open new visions, new
markets for you, or allow us to leapfrog our competitors in
key areas and/or pass on to you advanced expertise. You may
still be able to submit a paper1.
In any case it is in your interest to come, catch up with us
and embark in discussions about your own activities and
solutions, and so much so whether they address basic
science or prototype development. You may also want to
follow the plenary on funding opportunities in Europe.
Expect presentations from the EC, the major space agencies,
and some foreign agencies that have supported us like
AFOSR or ONR.
Last but not least, if you prefer quieter environments and blue-
sky research, please consider joining our forthcoming Aerospace
Thematic Workshop on Plasmas for Flow and Combustion
Control (https://www.eucass.eu/index.php/conferences-
and-publications/atw-2017) scheduled near St Petersburg in
April. The field is over two decades old and maturing. It may
hold the solution to your problems in atmospheric pressure
specialists worldwide will lecture in the physics and chemistry
of this promising discipline. Fundamentals, instrumentation
and applications will be presented.
This community of specialists is very warm, like a family, and
the venue is outstanding. l
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