THERMOPHYSICS STUDENT BEST PAPER AWARD WINNERS

1994 K. Dowding, J. Beck, Aulrich, B. Blackwell, and J. Hayes,

“Estimation of Thermal Properties and Surface Heat Flux in a Carbon-Carbon Composite Material”, AIAA 94-1963

1995 J. D. Johnston and E. A. Thornton,

“Thermal Response of Radiantly Heated Spinning Spacecraft Booms”, AIAA 95-2019

1996 G. F. Mitchell and Y. Bayazitoglu

“Viscosity Measurement of Acoustically Levitated Droplets in Air”, AIAA 96-0236

1997 N. Belouaggadria & R. Brun

“Chemical Rate in Non-Equilibrium Flows”, AIAA 97-2555

1998 S. I. Silton and D. B. Goldstein

“Numerical and Experimental Investigation of the Reduction of Hypersonic Nose Tip Ablation”, AIAA 98-1069

1999 J. J. Fuller and E. E. Marotta

“Thermal Contact Conductance of Metal/Polymer Joints”, AIAA 99-3490

2000 Campbell and Candler,

“Detailed Simulation of Nitrogen Dissociation over a Sphere", AIAA 2000-0212

2001 Not awarded

2002 M. Fertig, H.H. Fruhauf, and M. Auweter-Kurtz

"Modelling of Reactive Processes at SiC Surfaces in Rarefied Nonequilibrium Airflows”, AIAA Paper 2002-3102

2003 A. Matsuda, K. Fujita, S. Sato, T. Abe,

"Translational Temperature Measurement for Atomic Oxygen Behind Shock Waves by Absorption Spectroscopic Technique”, AIAA 2003-3784

2004 Jonathan M. Burt and Iain D. Boyd

“Development of a Two-Way Coupled Model for Two-Phase Rarefied Flows”, AIAA 2004-1351

2005 K. Wierschke, M. Franke, R. Watts, and R. Ponnappan.

"Heat Dissipation with Pitch Based Carbon Foams and Phase Change Materials", AIAA 2005-5070