SciTech 2027 — DPW-8/AePW-4 Special Sessions
January 11-15, 2027

Session 1

Monday
9:30–10:50
Manatee Spring II
DPW-8/AePW-4: Overview and Grids
Time Speaker Institution Title Links
9:30–9:50 Brent Pomeroy NASA Langley (Emeritus Langley Associate) Summary of the Eighth Drag Prediction and Fourth Aeroelastic Prediction Workshop Slides
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9:50–10:10 Andrew Wick Helden Aerospace HeldenMesh Contributions to the 8th Drag Prediction / 4th Aeroelastic Prediction Workshops Slides
10:10–10:30 Claudio Pita Cadence DPW8: Automated Mesh Family Generation for Fixed-Grid RANS Simulations Slides
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10:30–10:50 Brent Pomeroy NASA Langley (Emeritus Langley Associate) 25 Years of DPW Grids: A Retrospective Slides
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Session 2

Monday
1:00–2:40
Manatee Spring II
AePW-4: High-Angle Working Group
Time Speaker Institution Title Links
1:00–1:20 Daniella Raveh Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Three- and Two-Dimensional Mapping of the BSCW Flutter Envelope Slides
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1:20–1:40 Michael Candon Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology RMIT/ANSYS/Duke Contribution to the AePW-4 High-Angle Working Group Slides
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1:40–2:00 Marcello Righi ZHAW/ETH Zurich Higher-Order Volterra Kernels Identification for the Test Cases of the High Angle Working Group in the Fourth Aeroelastic Prediction Workshop Slides
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2:00–2:40 Pawel Chwalowski NASA Langley Summary Data From the High Angle Working Group at DPW-8/AePW-4 Slides
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Session 3

Monday
3:30–5:10
Manatee Spring II
AePW-4: Large Deflection and High Speed Working Groups
Time Speaker Institution Title Links
3:30–3:50 Daniella Raveh Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Overview of Very Flexible Swept Pazy Wings Testing and Analysis Slides
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3:50–4:10 Ben Preston Imperial College London Flutter and LCO Predictions for Very Flexible Swept Wings Slides
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4:10–4:30 Rohit Deshmukh University of Central Florida Data-Enriched Models for Predicting Fluid-Structure Interaction Under Impinging Weak Shocks Slides
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4:30–5:10 Kirk Brouwer Air Force Research Lab Summary Data From the High Speed Working Group at DPW-8/AePW-4 Slides
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Session 4

Tuesday
9:30–11:30
Manatee Spring II
DPW-8: Sources of Scatter and Test Environment Working Groups
Time Speaker Institution Title Links
9:30–9:50 Vaibhavi Addala Massachusetts Institute of Technology Comparison of Adaptive Meshers and SA Turbulence Models on ONERA OAT15A Airfoil Slides
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9:50–10:10 Murilo Metriner Embraer Embraer Contribution to DPW-8/AePW-4: Scatter WG Three-Dimensional Cases Slides
10:10–10:30 Ben Rider Boeing Commercial Airplanes Boeing Contributions to the Eighth Drag Prediction and Fourth Aeroelastic Prediction Workshop Slides
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10:30–10:50 Brandon Lowe Analytical Mechanics Associates / NASA Ames Static Aeroelastic Predictions and Sting Effects of the CRM using LAVA Slides
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10:50–11:10 Eduardo Molina Embraer Wall Model Large Eddy Simulations of Transonic Common Research Model in NTF Wind Tunnel Slides
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11:10–11:30 Ben Rider Boeing Commercial Airplanes Summary of the Wind Tunnel Test Environment Working Group for the Eighth Drag Prediction Workshop Slides
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Session 5

Tuesday
1:00–3:00
Manatee Spring II
DPW-8/AePW-4: Static Deformation & Buffet Working Groups 1
Time Speaker Institution Title Links
1:00–1:40 Marshall Galbraith Massachusetts Institute of Technology Summary of the Sources of Scatter Working Group for the Eighth Drag Prediction Workshop Slides
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1:40–2:00 Ben Rider Boeing Commercial Airplanes Summary of the Static Deformation Working Group for the Eighth Drag and Fourth Aeroelastic Prediction Workshop Slides
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2:00–2:20 Joel St. Onge Gulfstream Transonic Buffet Determination for the ONERA OAT15A Airfoil Slides
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2:20–2:40 Kevin Jacobson NASA Langley ONERA OAT15A Buffet Predictions with FUN3D Slides
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2:40–3:00 Konrad Goc Boeing Commercial Airplanes Large Eddy Simulations of Transonic Buffet on the ONERA OAT15A Airfoil Slides
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Session 6

Tuesday
3:30–5:30
Manatee Spring II
DPW-8/AePW-4: Buffet Working Group 2
Time Speaker Institution Title Links
3:30–3:50 Jeff Housman NASA Ames Evaluation of a Stress-Corrected Large Eddy Simulation Method for Transonic Buffet Analysis of the NASA Common Research Model Slides
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3:50–4:10 Tausif ("TJ") Jamal NASA Langley USM3D-ME Contributions to the Eighth Drag and Fourth Aeroelastic Prediction Workshop Slides
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4:10–4:30 Rafael Vieira Dassault Systèmes Transonic Shock Buffet Lattice-Boltzmann Simulations Using PowerFLOW® for the 8th Drag and 4th Aeroelastic Prediction Workshops Slides
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4:30–4:50 Brett Bornhoft Cadence Wall-modeled Large-Eddy Simulation of Transonic Buffet on the JAXA CRM Slides
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4:50–5:10 Andrea Sansica JAXA JAXA's Contribution to the 8th Drag Prediction Workshop using FaSTAR Slides
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5:10–5:30 Eduardo Molina Embraer Immersed Boundary Wall-modeled Large Eddy simulations for Buffet Onset Prediction on Transonic Aircraft Slides
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Session 7

Thursday
9:30–11:30
Manatee Spring II
DPW-8/AePW-4: Buffet Working Group 3
Time Speaker Institution Title Links
9:30–9:50 Michael Candon Massachusetts Institute of Technology Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Slides
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9:50–10:10 Johan Jansson KTH Royal Institute of Technology First-principles fast Adaptive Euler FSI development and results in the Drag and Aeroelastic Prediction Workshop Slides
10:10–10:30 Steve Lamberson Bowhead Total Enterprise Solutions / CREATE-AV HPCMP CREATE™-AV Kestrel Simulations for the DPW-8/AePW-4 Buffet Working Group: Part II Slides
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10:30–10:50 Paul Batten Metacomp CFD++ Computations of the DPW-8 Buffet Working Group Cases 1 and 3 Slides
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10:50–11:30 Brent Pomeroy NASA Langley (Emeritus Langley Associate) Summary Data From the Buffet Working Group at DPW-8/AePW-4 Slides
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