June 6th, 2016

September 11-16 2016, CNRS Conference Centre Paul Langevin, Aussois, France

The 2016 AEROSPACE THEMATIC WORKSHOP on "Fundamentals of Collisions of Fast Particles with Surfaces" will take place during the week of 11-16 September 2016 at the well known CNRS Conference Centre Paul Langevin, Aussois, at the heart of the beautiful French Alps. This is the very first conference of its kind, in a consecrated series dedicated to the fundamental issues of scientific disciplines relevant to aeronautics and space.

Objectives
The workshop aims to survey the state of the art of our knowledge in the physics and chemistry of high-speed particle collisions (5000 -15000 m/s, several eV energy) with solid surfaces, namely:

• surface accommodation and subsurface bond breaking and damage
• chemical abstraction, oxidation, etc.
• atom exchange reactions
• emission of radiation, absorption of radiation from the hot boundary layer and the reaction products and subsequent photo-chemistry
• reaction of the ablated elements with the boundary layer of the incoming fluid flow
• ionization and plasma formation

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