Purdue Stands Prominent at the 46th Annual AIAA Propulsion Conference in the Best Paper Awards

The 46th Annual AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit was held July 25-28th in Nashville, TN, where Purdue stood out in receiving numerous Best Paper Awards.

AAE Professors, Charles Merkle and John Sullivan, with AAE alum John Tapee, and current AAE grad student Dheeraj Kapilavai, and 2 Gulf Stream Aerospace Corporation employees,  won Best Paper in the Air Breathing Section for their work entitled "Experimental Testing and Numerical Simulations of Shrouded Plug Nozzle Flowfields."

AAE Assistant Research Professor, Timothée Pourpoint, along with 2 other authors, wrote "An Analysis of the Hydrogen Sorption Kinetics of TiCrMn" to win Best Paper in the Energy Section.

Taking the Hybrid Rockets Student Paper Award was the collaboration of recent Purdue AAE alums, John Tsohas and Brad Appel, along with current AAE master's students, Andrew Rettenmaier and Michael Walker, and Purdue AAE Professor Stephen Heister for their paper entitled "Development and Launch of the Purdue Hybrid Rocket Technology Demonstrator."

And former Purdue AAE master's student, Adam Butt, won Best Paper in the Liquid Rocket section with a paper titled "NASA ARES I Launch Vehicle Roll and Reaction Control Systems Design Status" written with 2 other co-authors.

Congratulations to all and thanks for making Purdue AAE shine.