AE Seminar

SPEAKER: Prof. Michael Heath, UIUC

TITLE: Integrated Simulation of Solid Propellant Rockets

DATE: Monday, January 23, 2006
TIME: 4:00 P.M.
PLACE: 103 Talbot Lab
104 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL

ABSTRACT

The Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) is a large ($4.5M/year), multi-disciplinary project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Its major goals are (1) integrated simulation of solid propellant rocket motors from first principles, (2) advancing the state of the art in computational simulation of multi-component systems, and (3) training a new generation of computational scientists and engineers. In this talk we give an overview of the research and development activities at CSAR and highlight some of the key research accomplishments in CSAR's eight year history, with special emphasis on the interplay among the various disciplines represented.