Day 1 — Saturday, June 6, 2026
Drag Prediction Workshop Focused Working Groups
Session 1
9:00–10:15
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Opening Remarks and Grids
Session Chair: John Vassberg
| Time | Speaker | Institution | Code / Note | Grid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00–9:10 | Ben Rider Brent Pomeroy |
DPW Organizing Committee | Opening Remarks | |
| 9:10–9:25 | Ben Rider | Boeing | Test Cases: Sources of Scatter | |
| 9:25–9:35 | Claudio Pita Sam Salehian |
Cadence | Cadence Grids | |
| 9:35–9:45 | Andrew Wick Rick Hooker (Presented by Ben Rider) |
Helden Aerospace | HeldenMesh Grids | |
| 9:45–10:00 | Brent Pomeroy | NASA Langley (Emeritus) | 25 Years of Grids: A Drag Prediction Workshop Retrospective | |
| 10:00–10:15 | Ben Rider | Boeing | OVERFLOW FELight GGNS |
Structured Unstructured |
| 10:15–10:30 | Break | |||
Session 2
10:30–11:45
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Sources of Scatter Working Group I
Session Chair: Hadar Ben-Gida
| Time | Speaker | Institution | Code / Note | Grid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:30–10:45 | Camille Fournis Ilias Petropoulos |
ONERA | elsA | Structured |
| 10:45–11:00 | Murilo Cunha Mestriner Angelo Antonio Verri |
Embraer | CFD++ | Unstructured |
| 11:00–11:15 | Marshall Galbraith Vaibhavi Addala Young (Tony) Hyun Ryu |
MIT | SANS | Adapted Unstructured |
| 11:15–11:30 | Mehmet Sahin Ibrahim Asar |
Istanbul Technical University | HEMLAB | Unstructured |
| 11:30–11:45 | Chris Toomer | University of the West of England | ANSYS-CFX, Fluent | Unstructured |
| 11:45–1:15 | Lunch (on your own) | |||
Session 3
1:15–3:00
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Sources of Scatter Working Group II
Session Chair: Melissa Rivers
| Time | Speaker | Institution | Code / Note | Grid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:15–2:00 | Chris Toomer | University of the West of England | Sources of Scatter Summary Presentation | Unstructured |
| 2:00–2:15 | All Attendees | Open Discussion | ||
| 2:15–2:45 | Ed Tinoco | DPW Organizing Committee | Retrospective: DPW Through the Years | |
| 2:45–3:00 | Break | |||
Session 4
3:00–4:45
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Wind Tunnel Test Environment Working Group
Session Chair: Marshall Galbraith
| Time | Speaker | Institution | Code / Note | Grid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:00–3:10 | Brent Pomeroy | NASA Langley (Emeritus) | NTF Geometry Summary | |
| 3:10–3:20 | Ben Rider | Boeing | Test Cases: Wind Tunnel Test Environment | |
| 3:20–3:35 | Jeff Housman | NASA Ames | LAVA | Structured Overset |
| 3:35–3:50 | Eduardo Molina Angelo Antonio Verri |
Embraer | Volcano ScaLES | WMLES |
| 3:50–4:05 | Ben Rider | Boeing | Key Questions: Scatter and Test Environment WGs | |
| 4:05–4:35 | All Attendees | Discussion | ||
| 4:35–4:45 | DPW Organizing Committee | Closing of Day 1 — Review Day 2 Agenda |