Report on 2013 AIAA Region VII-AU (Australasia-Asia) Student Conference

Conference Chair: Dr. Graham Doig

UNSW Australia School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

E: g.doig@unsw.edu.au, t: +61 2 9385 5428

Judging Coordinator and Lead Organizer: Amelia Greig The Australian National University

E: amelia.greig@anu.edu.au

Executive Summary The AIAA Region VII-AU Conference was held at the University of New South Wales from November 27-29, 2013. The conference was timed such that exams would be completed at all Australian universities from which participants were likely to be drawn. The event was able to draw in a large participation due to the base of students at UNSW and the University of Sydney, and we had a relatively full 2 days with 33 competition presentations and 4 non-competition presentations made. Additional registered attendees brought the numbers up to 57 students over the two days, albeit with 4 of these via skype. The newly-established UNSW AIAA Student Branch was tasked with coming up with a modest “social program” that involved a welcome drinks reception at the nearby Doncaster Hotel at which 20 or students networked. The event dinner was held at the Bronte Lifesaving Club at Bronte Beach, which most students attended – it was combined with the Sydney Section Christmas Party and a keynote speaker, Darryl Stokes from Australian Aerospace, talked about the C130J project, followed by a keen Q&A session. Prizes were awarded to Andrew Gong from the University of Sydney (1st place, and a trip to the AIAA SciTech 2014 meeting in Maryland), Michael Evans from the University of Adelaide (2nd), and John Powell from Monash University (3rd). The conference budget indicated a surplus of $1.15 after all expenses were finalized, such that the event largely broke even thanks to sponsorship of catering from the UNSW School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, and the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research – while expensive, the venue for the evening event was spectacular and much-appreciated by the attendees, and feedback from the students and organizers for the whole event was extremely positive.

Personnel Conference Chair: Dr. Graham Doig, UNSW Australia Judging Coordinator and Lead Organizer: Amelia Greig, The Australian National University UNSW Student Organizing Committee: Matt Cruickshank, Kyll Schomberg UNSW Student Volunteers: Alex Ngo, Michael Klas, Tristan Brown, Tim Lee, Glenn Ong (photographer) Keynote Speakers: Dr. Andrew Neely (UNSW Australia - Canberra) Darryl Stokes (Australian Aerospace) Audio Judges: Gareth Vio (University of Sydney) Alex Le Fevre (Australian Aerospace) Sam Mallinson (Memjet Australia) Gordon Pike (Retired) Anthony Wicht (Department of Innovation) Sammy Diasinos (Macquarie University) Michael West (AIAA) Sonya Brown (Quickstep) Technical Judges: See list over page

Technical Judges:

Atri, Mukul ETH Zurich

Damodaran, Murali IIT Gandhinagar Dasgupta, Arnab ADFA Dash, Pramod Rajadhani Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kerala Doolan, Con University of Adelaide Edwards, Andrew Optus Satellite Operaitions Farrugia, Greg AIAA Sydney Section Council Khan, Abid Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan Khurana, Shashank Senior Research Scholar, College of Engineering, Peking University Kumar, Vinod Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO DOS Leeson, Julia NewSat Ltd Li, Tuanjie Xidian university Lin, Chao-An National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Mallinson, Sam Memjet Australia Mathau, Jose Prakash TKM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, KOLLAM, KERALA, INDIA Medwell, Paul The University of Adelaide Meng, Hua Zhejiang University O'Byrne, Sean ADFA Perumal, Kannan UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA/SINGAPORE AIRLINES LIMITED Raizada, Arvind CAE Inc Rehmanjan, Ubair Qantas Airywas Limited Sengupta, Kaustav The Boeing Company Singh, Balbir Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal University, Karnataka, India Spencer, Michael Royal Australian Air Force Tetlow, Matthew University of Adelaide Verstraete, Dries University of Sydney

Vio, Gareth University of Sydney West, Michael AIAA Young, John ADFA Zhao, Xuejun

Zulkefli, Zamir

About the Conference The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) sponsors student conferences in each AIAA Region to provide students in aerospace related fields with a professional conference experience in which to present research, exchange knowledge, and discuss opportunities in the field of aerospace engineering. The conference also provides students with the opportunity to obtain feedback on their work, writing and presentations from professionals outside their direct academic environment, thus aiding in the growth and development of their research and communication skills. The Region VII-AU (Australasia Asia) conference has been maturing in recent years to become an established part of the undergraduate experience of top aerospace students across Australia in particular. The 2013 conference was held at UNSW Australia in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, capping a year in which the UNSW Student Branch was launched with great success. This year’s conference consisted of the competition for undergraduates as in previous years, but taking advantage of the concentration of aerospace students at UNSW and the University of Sydney, attendance and the number of submissions were both up on previous instalments. The participants submitted written papers that were reviewed and judged, and each of the participants was then judged on their oral presentation before a panel of aerospace professionals organized by Amelia Greig. The authors received feedback on their work and their ability to communicate that work. In addition, prizes were awarded. The AIAA Foundation provided the following monetary prizes for awards: First place: US $500 and a trip to the AIAA SciTech Meeting in National Harbor, Maryland Second Place: $300 Third Place: $250 The conference consisted of several events, which included an informal reception at the Doncaster Hotel, and technical sessions following a daily keynote speaker – on the first day, a late cancellation by initial speaker David Wilson from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau led conference chair Dr. Graham Doig to step in and talk about his career path and the importance of being open to chance and networking; following this, UNSW PhD student Kyll Schomberg talked about his research and his decision to pursue postdoctoral study. On the second day, the keynote was a fascinating lecture delivered by A/Prof. Andrew Neely of UNSW Canberra, on the subject of hypersonics research in Australia, which provoked much discussion amongst the students. The conference dinner was held at the Bronte Lifesaving Club at Bronte Beach, which most students attended – it was combined with the Sydney Section Christmas Party and a keynote speaker, Darryl Stokes from Australian Aerospace, talked about the C130J project, followed by a keen Q&A session including careers advice for those wishing to break into the small and competitive grad position market in Australia. Following the awards presentation at the end of day 2, many attendees gathered for more informal drinks and networking and discussions about the 2014 SPC being held at the University of Sydney were briefly held amongst the organizers. Overall the event was a resounding success. The international skype presentations worked well. We had approximately 10 additional persons at the conference other than students – organizers, judges, student chaperones, etc. – the numbers proved manageable with parallel sessions required approximately half the time, although in retrospect this diluted the cohesiveness of the group a little as some did not see, for instance, any of the prizewinning presentations.

Attendees

Name University

Banna, Md Abu Horaira No Affiliation (Bangladesh)

Bowkett, Carlos University of Sydney

Boyton, Chloe University of New South Wales

Briere, Emily University of New South Wales

Broadbent, Tim University of New South Wales

Brown, Tristan University of New South Wales

Chan, Joel University of New South Wales

Chen, Cynthia Monash University

Chi, Monica University of New South Wales

Chou, Joyce University of New South Wales

Chowdhury, Tonoy No Affiliation (Bangladesh)

Crampton , Alexander University of New South Wales

Cruickshank, Matthew University of New South Wales

DMello, Shaun University of Sydney

Davies, Todd University of Sydney

Diab, Paul University of New South Wales

Dongre, Kaustubh University of New South Wales

Duong, Joseph University of New South Wales

Evans, Michael University of Adelaide

Giannelis, Nicholas University of Sydney

Glover, Rohan University of Sydney

Gong, Andrew University of Sydney

Gorur, Eren University of Sydney

Greig, Amelia The Australian National University

Hacker, Jacob University of Sydney

Homaisi, Wisam University of New South Wales

Humphrey, Nathan Monash University

Huq, Taofiq University of New South Wales

Huynh, David University of New South Wales

Islam, Asiful University of New South Wales

Jamie, Richard University of Sydney

Jindal, Divya University of New South Wales

Johnson, Michael University of New South Wales

Johnston, Nicholas Monash University

Klas, Michael University of New South Wales

Lau, Matthew University of New South Wales

Leslie, Michael University of Adelaide

Linda, Rezawana No Affiliation (Bangladesh)

Mason-Smith, Nicholas Monash University

Moore, Robert RMIT University

Morrell, Benjamin University of Sydney

Munk, Dave University of Sydney

Murphy, Ryan University of New South Wales

Ngo, Alex University of New South Wales

Nguyen, Thien University of New South Wales

Ong, Glenn University of New South Wales

Pankanin, Mark University of New South Wales

Patel, Mitesh RMIT University

Paull, Nathan University of Queensland

Piper, stephen University of Sydney

Powell, John Monash University

Schomberg, kyll University of New South Wales

Sinclair, James University of New South Wales

Sivanathan, Kirishanth University of New South Wales

Streeter, Glen University of Sydney

Vella, Matthew University of Sydney

Wang, Yunze University of Adelaide

Westell, Henri University of Adelaide

Xue, Tony University of New South Wales

Zhu, Nicholas University of Adelaide

Prizes

First Prize

Andrew Gong (University of Sydney) - Experimental characterisation of a fuel cell hybrid electrical

UAV propulsion system.

Second Prize

Michael Evans (University of Adelaide) - Modelling Ethylene-Nitrogen Jet Flames in a Heated Coflow

Third Prize

John Powell (Monash University) - Flow Field Characteristics of a Ducted Rotor Producing Thrust

Against the Freestream.

Budget Summary Reported by David Wilson, Sydney Branch Treasurer Item Amount

Total

AIAA Funding $4,183.02

+ $1.15

Mech funding $487.70 ACSER funding $487.70 Bank $15.00 Bronte Club Hire $900.00 Bronte Catering $1,780.00 Event brite Bronte $39.33 Conf coord AG $378.34 Conf coord MW $137.04 Reimb MK Fri breaks $47.82 Reimb TL Thurs breaks name badges $78.00 Reimb GD lunches and welcome $776.40 A Gong First Prize $516.00 2nd prize $310.00 3rd prize $258.00

Sponsorship for lunches on both days was provided by the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research and the UNSW School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, allowing generous amounts of catering from Eagle Boys Pizza and Subway – leftovers were donated to the student AIAA volunteers.

Photo highlights:

Day Two attendees following the prizegiving

Left to right: Dr. Graham Doig (conference chair), UNSW student branch members and

conference assistants Tristan Brown, Michael Klas, Alex Ngo and Tim Lee, and Dr. Michael West (Chair: AIAA Sydney Section)

Sydney Section Chair Dr. Michael West with speaker Darryl Stokes - C-130J Engineering Manager, Australian Aerospace – Sydney Section Christmas Event / Student Conference Dinner.

Dr. Michael West (left) and Dr. Graham Doig (right) with 1st place prizewinner Andrew Gong from the University of Sydney.

Dr. Michael West (left) and Dr. Graham Doig (right) with 3nd place prizewinner John Powell from Monash University.

Students enjoying the view from Bronte Lifesaving Club, venue for the conference evening dinner and Sydney Section Christmas Drinks.

APPENDIX I: Initial Announcement

APPENDIX II: Flyers for handing out at events (postcards)

APPENDIX III: Final Full Conference Program

Forewords:

Welcome to our 2013 American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics Region VII Student Conference – Australia’s chance to showcase the great work being done by our undergraduate researchers, and for the students, a fantastic way to network and make new friends, learn about exciting work, hear from some local experts in aeronautics and space, and maybe even win a trip to the 2014 AIAA SciTech meeting in the US.

All of us on the organising team hope you have a great time at UNSW and in Sydney if you're able to attend. The standard of papers this year has been exceptionally high, and we’ve also had a fantastic increase in the number of presentations and attendees on previous years showing increasing interest in this great event. A lot of people put a lot of work into putting this event together, and the biggest thanks of all has to go to Amelia Greig – without her efforts over many months, the conference would’ve been a big disorganised mess if it even happened at all. Kyll Schomberg has been excellent at making sure we’re all fed and watered and bound to have a good time, and David Wilson has been busy balancing the books and taking care of lots of things behind the scenes. Matt Cruickshank and Alex Ngo and the UNSW Student Branch have been great at taking care of lots of things big and small. Various academics have been brilliant at helping us get the word out all over the country and abroad, and thanks so much to our keynote speakers and judges and reviewers who really maximise the professionalism of the event and the value to everyone that attends. Finally a big thanks is also due to Michael West, gently pulling the strings here and there to make it all happen. So enjoy the conference, make the most of every opportunity, and let’s continue to celebrate Australia’s place as a nexus of innovation and ideas in aerospace, able to punch way above our weight.

Dr. Graham Doig

Conference Chair, UNSW School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

2013 Event Sponsors:

Welcome to the 2013 AIAA Region VII Student Conference - the 10th edition since the conference was first held in Australia in 2004. The AIAA Sydney Section is delighted to partner with the UNSW AIAA Student Branch and UNSW to host this great event. From humble beginnings - back in 2004 there were just 10

presenters - this conference has grown every year and the 2013 edition will be the largest so far with over 35 papers being delivered. The next few days are a fantastic opportunity to present your work in a formal technical meeting atmosphere, develop your presentation skills and exchange ideas with other students from around the region. I have been impressed by the quality of the papers that I have reviewed and I am looking forward to listening to the presentations. Best of luck to all the presenters and, irrespective of the results, I know you will all develop skills and contacts that you can use now and into your future careers. For those who have recently completed their undergraduate studies, I want to strongly encourage you to continue your involvement with the AIAA as a young professional member. The AIAA recognises the importance of developing the aerospace profession's next generation. Whatever your interests within aeronautics and astronautics and wherever in the world your career will take you, the AIAA provides many unique opportunities that will enrich your career and help you achieve your goals. On behalf of the AIAA Sydney Section, I would like to thank all those who have worked hard over the past year to make this event a success - your efforts have been tremendous! Thank you to the AIAA Foundation and AIAA Headquarters for funding the conference and prizes. Without their vision and desire to invest in future aerospace professionals, this event would not be possible. We also appreciate the support of the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research and the UNSW School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. I hope you enjoy the conference!

Dr. Michael West

Chair, AIAA Sydney Section

Contents: Conference Outline – at a glance 4

Prizes 5

Programme 6

Kensington Campus Map 11

1. Conference Outline

Wednesday November 27th 6:30pm

Welcome Reception (informal, dress: casual or smart casual) The Roundhouse (next to Law Building, UNSW)

Thursday November 28th 8:50am Welcome address: Graham Doig, Conference Chair 9:00am Keynote I: Kyll Schomberg (PhD Student, UNSW) and Graham Doig 9:40am to 10:40am

Structures and Materials I, Law Room G23 11:00am to 12:40pm Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics I (and Miscellaneous I), Law Room G23 12:40pm to 13:30pm --- Lunch, proudly sponsored by the UNSW School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering 13:30pm to 15:30pm Propulsion, Law Room G23 15:50pm to 16:50pm Structures and Materials II, Law Room G23 7:00pm Conference Evening Function and AIAA Sydney Section Christmas Party Guest Speaker: Darryl Stokes - C-130J Engineering Manager, Australian Aerospace Dress: smart casual Venue: Bronte Surf Lifesaving Club, Bronte Beach

Friday November 29th 8:55am Day 2 welcome: Graham Doig, Conference Chair 9:00am Keynote II: Associate Professor Andrew Neely, UNSW Canberra Law Room G23 9:40am to 10:40am

Hypersonics, Law Room G23 Operations and Safety, Law Room 101

11:00am to 12:40pm Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics II, Law Room G23 Space Transport and Applications, Law Room 101 12:40pm to 13:30pm --- Lunch, proudly sponsored by the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research 13:30pm to 15:30pm Jets and Wakes, Law Room G23 Miscellaneous II, Law Room 101

15:50pm to 16:10pm Prizegiving and closing remarks, Law Room G23

Prizes Our panel of expert judges will be responsible for deciding the following prizes sponsored by the AIAA:

First place: $500 (USD) and a trip to the AIAA Scitech Meeting in January 2014, Maryland, USA (for one author).

Second Place: $300 (USD)

Third Place: $250 (USD)

2. Programme

Thursday November 28th Morning Sessions Law room G23 Welcome: 8:50 – 9:00, Dr. Graham Doig, Conference Chair

Session: Structures and Materials I Time Name Affiliation Category Title

9:00 Kyll Schomberg and Graham Doig

UNSW Keynote

9:40 David Huynh UNSW Competition Microwave Cured Composites

10:00 Kaustubh Dongre UNSW Competition The Effect of Geometric Variation on Resin Flow During Vacuum Infusion

10:20 Shaun D’Mello University of Sydney

Competition Structural Design and Optimisation of the LAPCAT A2 Canard

Break for morning tea: 10:40 – 11:00

Session: Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics I (and Miscellaneous I) Time Name Affiliation Category Title

11:00 Emily Briere UNSW Non-comp Trajectory Optimizations for NASA Small-Satellite Asteroid Flyby Explorer

(SAFEX)

11:20 Asiful Islam UNSW Competition Wind-Tunnel Experimental Methodology to Capture Vortex Core

Velocity Profiles

11:40 Nathan Paull University of

Queensland

Competition High speed imaging of scramjet flow in the X3 expansion tube

12:00 Matthew Cruickshank

UNSW Competition Integration of experimental aerodynamic results to full scale

analysis

12:20 (contingency)

Break for lunch: 12:40 – 13:30

Thursday November 28th Afternoon Sessions Law room G23

Session: Propulsion Time Name Affiliation Category Title

13:30 Andrew Gong University of Sydney

Competition Experimental characterisation of a fuel cell hybrid electrical UAV

propulsion system

13:50 Carlos Bowkett University of Sydney

Competition Heat Transfer in Micro Gas Turbines

14:10 Md Abu Horaira Banna

Military Institute of Science &

Technology of Bangladesh

Competition Next Generation Hybrid Power Plant: A Solution to Continuous Flight

14:30 Rohan Glover University of Sydney

Competition Free Turbine Design of Micro Gas Turbine Engines

14:50 Michael Johnson UNSW Competition The exergy analysis and entropy generation minimisation of a two-

spool turbofan

15:10 Alex Ngo UNSW Competition Thermo-Mechanical Fatigue of Graphene Nano-Composite Turbines

in Gas-Turbine Engines

Break for afternoon tea: 15:30 – 15:50

Session: Structures and Materials II Time Name Affiliation Category Title

15:50 Todd Davies University of Sydney

Competition Passive Flutter and Gust Suppression using Non-Linear Oscillators

16:10 Mitesh Patel RMIT Competition The Influences of Orthotropy and Scarf Angle on the Compressive Strengths of

Composite Laminates with Scarfed Holes

16:30 Wisam Homaisi UNSW Competition Effect of Temperature on the Multi-Mode Fracture of Composites with the

validation of Onset Theory

Friday November 29th Morning Sessions Law room G23

Session: Hypersonics Time Name Affiliation Category Title

9:00 Andrew Neely UNSW Canberra

Keynote

9:40 Benjamin Morrell University of Sydney

Competition Aerothermodynamic module of a novel hypersonic, preliminary design tool

10:00 Nicholas Giannelis University of Sydney

Competition Aerothermoelastic Performance in Hypersonic Flight

10:20 David Munk University of Sydney

Competition Development of a Hypersonic Design Tool

Break for morning tea: 10:40 – 11:00

Session: Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics II Time Name Affiliation Category Title

11:00 John Powell Monash University

Competition Trajectory Optimizations for NASA Small-Satellite Asteroid Flyby Explorer

(SAFEX)

11:20 Asiful Islam UNSW Competition Fundamental studies of vortices induced by automotive vortex-generators

11:40 Matthew Cruickshank

UNSW Competition Methods of motorsport aerodynamic analysis

12:00 Richard Jamie University of Sydney

Competition Initial Design and Optimisation of Formula SAE Aerodynamics

12:20 Joel Chan UNSW Competition Time-Accurate Numerical Simulation of Shock Tube Flow and Shockwave/Fire

Interaction

Break for lunch: 12:40 – 13:30

Friday November 29th Morning Sessions Law room 101

Session: Operations and Safety Time Name Affiliation Category Title

9:40 Chloe Boyton UNSW Competition Automatic Generation of Aircraft Loading Schedules

10:00 Yunze Wang University of Adelaide

Competition Inverse Modeling of Contaminant Source in Transport Aircraft Cabin

10:20 Tonoy Chowdhury

Military Institute of Science &

Technology of Bangladesh

Competition Application of Fiber Optics in Aircraft Control System & its Development

Break for morning tea: 10:40 – 11:00

Session: Space Transportation and Applications Time Name Affiliation Category Title

11:00 Nirmal Mallavarapu

SRM University

Competition Mitigation of space debris through ISS onboard launch mechanisms

11:20 Joseph Duong UNSW Competition The Feasibility of an End-Of-Life Disposal Mission for Geostationary

Satellites

11:40 Thien Nguyen UNSW Competition Tracking Aircraft via a Low-Earth Orbit CubeSat Constellation

12:00 Tony Xue UNSW Competition Satellite Vibration Analysis for On-Orbit Assembly

12:20 Jacob Hacker Eren Gorur

UNSW Competition Australian Space Policy: A Student Perspective

Break for lunch: 12:40 – 13:30

Friday November 29th Afternoon Sessions Law room G23

Session: Jets and Wakes

Time Name Affiliation Category Title

13:30 Michael Evans University of Adelaide

Competition Modelling ethylene-nitrogen jet flames in a heated coflow

13:50 Nathan Humphrey Monash University

Competition The Acoustic Effects of Chevrons on a Supersonic Underexpanded Jet

14:10 Henri Westell University of Adelaide

Competition Investigation into the Effects of Passive Nozzle Exit Shape Manipulation on Jet Noise

14:30 Nicholas Mason-Smith

Monash University

Competition Effect of Impingement Surface Curvature on Shock Structures and Instabilities in Underexpanded Jets

14:50 Nicholas Johnston Monash University

Competition Impact of Vortex-Producing Tabs on the Aeroacoustics of Underexpanded

Supersonic Jets

15:10 (contingency)

Break for afternoon tea: 15:30 – 15:50 Presentation of Awards and closing: 15:50

Friday November 29th Afternoon Sessions Law room 101

Session: Miscellaneous II Time Name Affiliation Category Title

13:30 Alex Crampton UNSW Non-Competition

Using transported probability density function method to model turbulent

premixed flames

13:50 Robert Moore RMIT Non-Competition

Economical Liquid Rocket Engine Production Using Thermal Spray

Techniques

14:10 Taofiq Huq UNSW Non-Competition

Application of Dielectric Barrier Discharge Actuator to Mini-UAV

Propeller Noise Reduction

14:30 Ryan Murphy UNSW Non-competition

Feasibility Study of the Potential use of Smart Materials in Winglet Design