Welcome from the Chair
Interested Stability and Transition Persons:
The Transition Study Group (TSG) will be reconstituted as a Working Group under the auspices of the AIAA Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee. TSG has existed in various forms over the past 31 years under the continuous leadership of Professor Eli Reshotko. Because of a need to husband meager resources and to coordinate different research activities, a number of program directors would like to continue this activity in a more formal setting. Professor Reshotko is the logical leader of such a group but he is now retired and the steering committee has asked me if I would re-organize TSG.
The steering committee decided that TSG will consist of a core of 10 persons in order to keep things on a workable level. The choice of individuals was determined by technical interest, geography, and a limit of one per organization. One of their principal agenda items will be to conduct a general meeting that will be open to all of those interested in supersonic/hypersonic boundary-layer transition. Obviously, a number of key people cannot be initially part of the organizing group and it is not intended that this be a closed group. Therefore, it is expected that the initial group will serve three years or so and other individuals will be rotated into the group on a regular basis. Moreover, it will be the duty of TSG members to obtain a consensus of agenda items from their colleagues. Therefore, it is expected that every active transition researcher will have the opportunity to contribute to TSG in one way or another.
Sincerely,
William S. Saric
Email: saric@tamu.edu
Mission
Discuss and exchange information on boundary-layer stability and transition research. Develop new areas of research and development. Assess the coordination and focus of sponsored research efforts. Plan and implement cooperative activities to resolve anomalies in data and between different computations.
Organization
Initially, the scope will be limited to supersonic and hypersonic flows since these are the primary programs that are funded in the U.S.
It is planned to meet twice a year: January at the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Reno and June at the AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference.
Members will serve terms of approximately 3 years with others rotating in on a regular basis. The details will be worked out at the first meeting. This group will schedule agenda items, write position papers, and in general, carry out the mission statement.
There always will be a session open to all interested people to discuss problems of transition and to give brief reports on current work.
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