HEATS

CNR - Area della Ricerca di Bari - Palazzo Veronico - via Amendola 122/D 70125 Bari (Italy) Conference room, first floor 15-16 January 2026 Organizing Committee : Francesco Bonelli (Chair/PI HEATS project - DMMM Politecnico di Bari) Anselmo Cecere (Università di Napoli) Oreste Pezzi (CNR ISTP sezione di Bari) Gianpiero Colonna (CNR ISTP sezione di Bari) Davide Ninni (DMMM Politecnico di Bari) PhotoGallery
		Workshop Proceedings will be published in Materials Research Proceedings MRF LLC DOCX template Extended submission Deadline: 15.02.26 OPEN ACCESS Indexed in SCOPUS 4-page length contributions Authors retain full copyright of their publications and are free to publish the same or extended paper elsewhere MRF Proceedings License (terms&conditions) deadline 31.01.2026
15 January 2026
14:30-14:40	Opening
session chair: Raffaele Savino (Università di Napoli)
14:40-15:00	Frederic Monteverde (CNR ISSMC Faenza)	Transition metal diboride solid solutions for future space missions
15:00-15:20	Mario De Stefano Fumo (CIRA)	High and Ultra High Temperature Ceramic Composites for Hypersonic Applications
15:20-15:40	Anselmo Cecere (Università di Napoli)	Heat Transfer analysis of Ultra-High-Temperature Ceramics materials in Plasma Wind Tunnel experiments
15:40-16:00	Sergio Cassese (Università di Napoli)	Analysis of Thermochemical Non Equilibrium and Heat Loads in a Mars-like Plasma Flow
Coffee Break
16:30-16:50	Domenic D'Ambrosio (Politecnico di Torino)	Research Activities in Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics at Politecnico di Torino
16:50-17:10	Arturo Popoli (Università di Bologna)	Overview of Research Activities at the Plasma Technology Laboratory (PTL), University of Bologna
17:10-17:30	Gianpiero Colonna (CNR ISTP sezione di Bari)	StS and Macroscopic models for re-entry conditions
17:30-18:10	Discussion
19:30 Dinner at the restaurant Vent8 Via Amendola, 122 X, Bari
16 January 2026
session chair: Giuseppe Pascazio (DMMM Politecnico di Bari)
09:00-09:20	Luigi Cutrone (CIRA)	Numerical Investigation of Ionization and Plasma Formation in Hypersonic Flow Validated Against RAM-C II Flight Data
09:20-09:40	Sergio Cassese (Università di Napoli)	Numerical–Experimental Study of Satellite Demise in an Arcjet Wind Tunnel
09:40-10:00	Francesco Bonelli (DMMM Politecnico di Bari)	Atmospheric re-entry flow simulations in thermochemical non-equilibrium
10:00-10:20	Marco D'Amato (DMMM Politecnico di Bari)	State-to-State simulation of an Arc-Jet wind tunnel
Coffee Break
10:50-11:10	Louis Walpot (ESA)	Overview of current hypersonic ESA research and technology activities
11:10-11:30	Salvatore Borrelli (CIRA)	Activities at the Italian Aerospace Research Centre
11:30-11:50	Marco DiClemente (ASI)	Innovative Technologies for Hypersonic Flight: The Italian Space Agency Approach
11:50-12:30	Discussion & CloseOut