Name: 11th International Workshop on Radiation of High Temperature Gases for Space Missions
Start: 2026-09-21T08:15:00+01:00
End: 2026-09-25T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Mola Di Bari

11th International Workshop on Radiation of High Temperature Gases for Space Missions

from Monday, 21 September 2026 (08:15) to Friday, 25 September 2026 (17:00)

Monday, 21 September 2026

08:30 REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION
08:30 - 09:00
Room: The Angevin Castle

09:00 Opening

09:00 - 09:30
Room: The Angevin Castle
09:30 Radiation modeling and simulation: Monday morning 1
Monday morning 1
09:30 - 10:30
Room: The Angevin Castle
Contributions

09:30 Dragonfly Aerothermal Design and DrEAM Instrumentation Approaching Aeroshell Assembly - Aaron Brandis (NASA Ames Research Center)

10:00 Coupled Flow-Radiation Reliability Analysis of the Dragonfly Capsule - Timothy Aiken (University of Colorado)
10:30 Coffee Break at the Palazzo Roberti Courtyard
Coffee Break at the Palazzo Roberti Courtyard
10:30 - 11:00
Room: The Angevin Castle
11:00 Radiation modeling and simulation: Monday morning 2
Monday morning 2
11:00 - 12:00
Room: The Angevin Castle
Contributions

11:00 The Physics of Asymptotic High-Speed Flow Regimes I: Thermodynamics and Kinetics - Mario Lino da Silva (Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear - Instituto Superior Tecnico)

11:30 The Physics of Asymptotic High-Speed Flow Regimes II: Radiative Heat Transfer - Tiago Garrão
12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 14:00
14:00 ablative-radiative TPS and Meteors: Monday afternoon 1
Monday afternoon 1
14:00 - 15:30
Room: The Angevin Castle
Contributions

14:00 Optical emission spectroscopy for laser-heated graphite in expansion tube - Hiroki Hirano (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

14:30 Spectroscopic Measurements for Low-Density Ablator in Expansion Tube with Gas Injection - Taichi Kumazaki (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

15:00 Influence of Gas Surface Interactions Modeling on Radiative Heat Transfer for Hypersonic Atmospheric Entry - Alessandro Meini (UCI)
15:30 Coffee Break at the Palazzo Roberti Courtyard
Coffee Break at the Palazzo Roberti Courtyard
15:30 - 16:00
Room: The Angevin Castle
16:00 State to state and Collisional Radiative Modelling: Monday afternoon 2
Monday afternoon 2
16:00 - 17:30
Room: The Angevin Castle
Contributions

16:00 Nonequilibrium kinetics and radiation of high-temperature N$_2$/CH$_4$ plasmas - Cyrine Merhaben (EM2C Laboratory, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris Sacaly)

16:30 State-to-state kinetics of pure reacting CO mixture: shock tube case - Emmanuel Scalera (CNR)

17:00 A simplified approach to atom and molecule thermodynamic functions - Gianpiero Colonna (CNR-ISTP Bari)
Tuesday, 22 September 2026
09:00 Plasma facilities, simulations and diagnostics: Tuesday morning 1
Tuesday morning 1
09:00 - 10:30
Room: The Angevin Castle
Contributions

09:00 Experimental Measurements of Non-Equilibrium Flow Relaxation for Uranus Entry using Vacuum-Ultraviolet and Visible Spectroscopy - Daisy-May Joslyn (The University of Queensland)

10:00 Modeling and simulation of non-equilibrium plasma facilities: an overview of kinetics, radiation, material response and validation activities - Marco Panesi (University of California, Irvine)
10:30 Coffee Break at the Palazzo Roberti Courtyard
Coffee Break at the Palazzo Roberti Courtyard
10:30 - 11:00
Room: The Angevin Castle
11:00 Plasma facilities, simulations and diagnostics: Tuesday morning 2
Tuesday morning 2
11:00 - 12:00
Room: The Angevin Castle
Contributions

11:00 New 8-Color, Spectrally-Resolved, Pathlength-Amplified Absorption Spectroscopy Measurements of Air-Argon-XenonPlasmas Behind Reflected Shock Waves - Devin Merrell (Stanford University)

11:30 Measuring the surface accommodation of molecular hypersonic plasmas - Gilles Courret (HEIG-VD)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00
14:00 Radiation modeling and simulation: Tuesday afternoon 1
Tuesday afternoon 1
14:00 - 15:30
Room: The Angevin Castle
Contributions

14:00 Sensitivity Analysis of Reaction Rate Uncertainties on Radiation in H2/He Ice Giant Entry Flows - Julien Clotuche (Université de Liège)

14:30 Characterization of Spectral Radiance Uncertainties for Ice Giant Entry Simulations and Experiments - Cate Leszcz (University of Colorado Boulder)

15:00 Shock-Layer Radiation Uncertainty for a Uranus Probe - Thomas West (NASA)
15:30 Coffee Break at the Palazzo Roberti Courtyard
Coffee Break at the Palazzo Roberti Courtyard
15:30 - 16:00
Room: The Angevin Castle
16:00 State to state and Collisional Radiative Modelling: Tuesday afternoon 2
Tuesday afternoon 2
16:00 - 17:00
Room: The Angevin Castle
Contributions

16:00 Analysis of hypersonic neutral-air flows using a consistent multi-internal-temperature kinetic formulation - Francesco Bonelli (Politecnico di Bari)

16:30 Modeling and Simulation of Thermochemical Nonequilibrium Flows during Titan Atmospheric Entry - Antonio Narracci
17:30 Walking Tour of the Old Mola di Bari
Walking Tour of the Old Mola di Bari
17:30 - 19:00
Wednesday, 23 September 2026
09:00 State to state and Collisional Radiative Modelling: Wednesday morning 1
Wednesday morning 1
09:00 - 10:30
Room: The Angevin Castle
Contributions

09:00 Comprehensive Validation of Electronic Excitation and Ionization Kinetics in Oxygen–Nitrogen–Argon Plasmas - Timothy Aiken (University of Colorado)

09:30 Numerical Analysis of a Non-Equilibrium Gas with a Vibrational-State Specific Model -- Application to the Shock Layer past a Sphere Entering a Nitrogen Atmosphere - Marie-Claude DRUGUET (Aix-Marseille University - CNRS UMR 7343 - IUSTI)

10:00 Assessment of the Quasi-Steady State approximation in a recombining Nitrogen / Argon plasma flow - Marco Carpanese (Laboratoire EM2C, CNRS UPR-288, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay and Università degli Studi di Padova)
10:30 Coffee Break at the Palazzo Roberti Courtyard
Coffee Break at the Palazzo Roberti Courtyard
10:30 - 11:00
Room: The Angevin Castle
11:00 State to state and Collisional Radiative Modelling: Wednesday morning 2
Wednesday morning 2
11:00 - 12:00
Room: The Angevin Castle
Contributions

11:00 Unpacking the Millikan and White Relaxation Fits - Kaelan Hansson (AMA Inc at NASA Ames)

11:30 Quintet A'' CNN PESs for CN Excitation Studies - Eric Geistfeld (AMA Inc. @ NASA Ames Research Center)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00
14:00 Radiation modeling and simulation: Wednesday afternoon 1
Wednesday afternoon 1
14:00 - 15:30
Room: The Angevin Castle
Contributions

14:00 HELIOSPARK: A modular CFD solver for thermochemical nonequilibrium hypersonic flows - Joaquim Nogueira

14:30 Radiative Heat Transfer Modeling of High-Enthalpy Flows Applied to Chemical Rocket Propulsion Systems - Marco Fabiani (Sapienza University of Rome)

15:00 A CFD-to-Radiation Framework for Line-by-Line Infrared Emission Modelling of High-Temperature Exhaust Plumes - Salvatore Esposito (CIRA)
15:30 Coffee Break at the Palazzo Roberti Courtyard
Coffee Break at the Palazzo Roberti Courtyard
15:30 - 16:00
Room: The Angevin Castle
16:00 Radiation modeling and simulation: Wednesday afternoon 2
Wednesday afternoon 2
16:00 - 17:00
Room: The Angevin Castle
Contributions

16:00 Transmission of radiation from hot vehicles to LEO-sensors - Christian Mundt
Thursday, 24 September 2026
09:00 Radiation modeling and simulation: Thursday morning 1
Thursday morning 1
09:00 - 10:30
Room: The Angevin Castle
Contributions

09:00 A Coupled Post-Shock Nonequilibrium Flow and Spectral Radiation Solver for Stagnation-Point Radiative Heating: FIRE II Validation with Error Structure Analysis - Jaejeong Na (Aerospace Integrated Wind Tunnel Center, Seoul National University, South Korea)

09:30 Impact of two-dimensionality and shock-speed variation on Earth-return shock-tube experiments - Justin Clarke (Oxford University)

10:00 Radiative Heating on the Mars Sample Retrieval Lander: Simulation, Validation, and Uncertainty - Kaelan Hansson (AMA Inc at NASA Ames)
10:30 Coffee Break at the Palazzo Roberti Courtyard
Coffee Break at the Palazzo Roberti Courtyard
10:30 - 11:00
Room: The Angevin Castle
11:00 High speed facilities, flight testing and propulsion: Thursday morning 2
Thursday morning 2
11:00 - 12:00
Room: The Angevin Castle
Contributions

11:00 Non-equilibrium scaling between H2–M shock layers using test gas substitution - Matthew Mcgilvray (University of Oxford)

11:30 Acceptance Testing of the ESTHER shock tube in operational configuration: First outcomes - Mario Lino da Silva (Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear - Instituto Superior Tecnico)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00
14:00 EDL instrumentation: Thursday afternoon 1
Thursday afternoon 1
14:00 - 15:30
Room: The Angevin Castle
Contributions

14:00 Entry modelling and instrumentation: impacts to aerothermal research - Aaron Brandis (NASA Ames Research Center)

14:30 A TPS-embedded Sensor-Suite for Ice Giant Aerocapture Featuring a Spectrometer - David Steuer (HEFDiG, Institute of Space Systems, University of Stuttgart)

15:00 Spectroscopy measurements on the KREPE-2 and KREPE-3 hypersonic flight experiments - Alexandre Martin (University of Kentucky)
15:30 Coffee Break at the Palazzo Roberti Courtyard
Coffee Break at the Palazzo Roberti Courtyard
15:30 - 16:00
Room: The Angevin Castle
16:00 Plasma facilities, simulations and diagnostics: Thursday afternoon 2
Thursday afternoon 2
16:00 - 17:00
Room: The Angevin Castle
Contributions

16:00 Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy for Characterizing Magnetic Field Deformation in Hypersonic Flows - Takeaki Muramatsu (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
19:30 Social Dinner at the Restaurant "Pugliainbocca"
Social Dinner at the Restaurant "Pugliainbocca"
19:30 - 22:30
Friday, 25 September 2026

08:30 Bus ride to SITAEL
Bus ride to SITAEL
08:30 - 09:00

09:00 SITAEL: SITAEL company presentation
SITAEL company presentation
09:00 - 09:30
Room: SITAEL HeadQuarter

09:30 SITAEL: Visit to the SITAEL HeadQuarter and laboratories
Visit to the SITAEL HeadQuarter and laboratories
09:30 - 10:30
Room: SITAEL HeadQuarter

10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00
Room: SITAEL HeadQuarter
11:00 High speed facilities, flight testing and propulsion: Friday morning
Friday morning
11:00 - 12:30
Room: SITAEL HeadQuarter
Contributions

11:00 Investigations in the NASA Ames Low Density Shock Tube - Brett Cruden (AMA Inc/NASA Ames)

11:30 Recent and Ongoing Upgrades to UQ's X2 Expansion Tube to Enhance Experimental Breadth, Experiment Quality, Condition Characterisation, and Experimental Measurements - Chris James (The University of Queensland)

12:00 Relevance of gas-phase radiation in cubesat-class hybrid rocket propulsion - Sergio Cassese (University of Naples "Federico II")
12:30 Wrap-up Closure, RHTG-11

12:30 - 13:00
Room: SITAEL HeadQuarter

13:00 Bus ride back to Mola di Bari city center
Bus ride back to Mola di Bari city center
13:00 - 13:30

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