Entries by dominique pirotais

FAR 2025 is over: we already miss you

  Learn… Share… Exchange… Enjoy. This could have been FAR 2025’s moto, but words are difficult to find when it comes to explain why. So we rely for that on Elsa Abéguilé’s talent, who provided us with the beautiful photographies beneath. They make feel, much better than a long text, the benefits that all participants […]

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FAR 2025 : Best Student Paper Award

For her publication “Heat transfer bridge relation for a sharp flat plate in continuum to rarefied hypersonic flows”, Beatriz Carda, in the first year of her thesis at CEA/CESTA, has been nominated for the “Best Student Paper Award” at the FAR 2025 conference. The HyFAR-ARA association and all its members congratulate her, her thesis supervisor […]

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FAR 2025: opening session

Today Monday May 19th 2025  is the official opening day of the conference. The morning session was the subject of several addresses by personalities. Mr Jeroen Van den Eynde[1] started the session on behalf of ESA. He was followed by Mr Patrice Beunard, Deputy Mayor of Arcachon, who welcomed the audience and wished the best […]

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FAR 2025 : the D-Day

The third edition of FAR 2025 opened today. Over 300 participants awaited. On Sunday March 18, ESA’s FAR 2025 conference opened under a summer’s sun. Over 300 people have registered for this third edition, which this year features over 200 oral and poster presentations. Four outstanding conferences have been given during this first day: on […]

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FAR 2025 : registrations are opened !

 ESA will organize in conjunction with HyFAR-ARA the 3rd International Conference on Flight Vehicles, Aerothermodynamics and Re-entry  (FAR 2025) from May 18th 2025 to May 22nd 2025. The conference will take place in Palais des Congrès of Arcachon (France). FAR 2025 The International Conference on Flight Vehicles, Aerothermodynamics and Re-entry  (FAR) is an international event […]

ONERA JOINS HyFAR-ARA

On May 15th 2024, the administration board of HyFAR-ARA officially validated ONERA as new member of the association. ONERA is the 9th organization to join the association.   ONERA (Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales) is The French Aerospace Lab, a research establishment of Ministry of Defence. On May 15th 2024, the administration board […]

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SC-X01 capsule on Ariane 6

ArianeGroup’s SC-X01 atmospheric re-entry demonstrator will be embarked on the maiden flight FM1 of ARIANE 6 (currently scheduled for mid-2024 [1]).   The purpose of the SC-X01 capsule is to prepare a commercial service called “SpaceCase”, which will enable customers to test and validate technologies such as materials, equipment and sensors in space environment and […]

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FAR2025 : save the date

 ESA will organize in conjunction with HyFAR-ARA the 3rd International Conference on Flight Vehicles, Aerothermodynamics and Re-entry  (FAR 2025) from May 18th 2025 to May 22nd 2025. The conference will take place in Palais des Congrès of Arcachon (France). FAR 2025 The International Conference on Flight Vehicles, Aerothermodynamics and Re-entry  (FAR) is an international event […]

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Reentry vehicle ablation

Maxime Stuck thesis « Ablation d’un matériau de protection thermique en régime turbulent » (« Thermal protection material ablation in turbulent regime ») has been defended on December 12th 2023 (ISAE-Université de Toulouse). The thesis addresses the coupling between ablation and turbulence that triggers the apparition of surface roughnesses on hypersonic vehicles ablative TPS during […]

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A successful symposium

The second edition[1] of the European Symposium on laminar/turbulent Transition in Hypersonic Regime (TRANSITION 2023) has been organized by HyFAR-ARA (www.hyfar-ara.org) at Cap Sciences (Bordeaux, France) from October 4th to  6th 2023. During 3 days this event has gathered 50 scientists and engineers coming from Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, UK, US and issued from academic, […]