1. Prof. dr hab. Marek Czachor
Faculty of Applied Physics & Mathematics
Gdańsk University of Technology (Politechnika Gdańska)
Representing:
Organizing & scientific committees of the 1st Smolensk Conference, 22 Oct 2012, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
Smolensk research project of Gdańsk Univ. Technology & Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery in Gdańsk, Polish Acad. Sci. (Instytut Maszyn Przepływowych PAN)

2. Smolensk Conference Committee: 52 full or associate professors of physics, chemistry, mathematics or technical sciences from
University of Warsaw
Warsaw University of Technology
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warszawa
National Center for Nuclear Research, Warszawa
Gdańsk University of Technology
University of Łódź
Łódź University of Technology
Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Kraków University of Technology
AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków
Białystok University of Technology
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Lublin University of Technology
Opole University of Technology
Building Research Institute, Warszawa
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław
Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences, Gdańsk
Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences , Warszawa
Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
University of Technology and Life Sciences, Bydgoszcz

3. Goals of the 1st Smolensk Conference
Create space for exchange of scientific results on
Create data basis for those who want to perform such research
Limiting factors
No posibility of examining the wreckage and „black boxes”
No access to reliable data
Part of evidence irreversibly lost due to improper treatment
No funding of such research is available in Poland
Positive elements
In scientific community growing awareness of loopholes of the official investigation
Growing number of scientists who openly declare their will of undertaking the examination

4. Examples of the difficulties we have...

5. 17 m ? Radar altitude 120° Inconsistencies of the official reports
(need access to original data)
17 m ?
Radar altitude
120°

6. Issues that require laboratory examination
(first of all, bring the wreckage to our labs)

7. Data source files are needed and not low-quality plots of the official reports
Example: possible problem with engine 3 (not mentioned in the official reports)

8. The twin aircraft 102 is an important source of knowledge on technical details. Experience with servicing in Poland of former Soviet aircrafts shows that details of construction typically differ from the published technical documentation.
Polish authorities try to sell 102 to Russia, which expresses interest in this transaction...

9. Funding?
Standard paths of funding grants are here unavailable – the project is sensu stricto neither fundamental nor applied

10. Project proposal for National Center for Research & Development (NCBiR)
Parametric modeling of the final few seconds of flight of TU-154M in Smolensk on 10 April 2010
Gdańsk University of Technology (Politechnika Gdańska)
5 departments from 4 faculties
Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences (IMP PAN)
3 departments
15 permanent group members + up to 20 persons to hire
Duration 2 years

11. Examples of previous activities of the Gdańsk group

12. New elements in our grant proposal
Collision with the birch will include aerodynamic forces
and turbulence

13. Callibration on 1963-1965 FAA experiments
New elements...

14. Callibration on 2010 NASA experiments
New elements...
Callibration on 2010 NASA experiments
N. T. Frinki in., CFD Assessment of Aerodynamic Degradation of a Subsonic Transport Due to Airframe Damage,

15. New elements...
Callibration on 1:10 scale experiment
Modeling the flight of the aircraft after the collision