Abstract
The AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting is the first major multidisciplinary event of the year for aerospace scientists and engineers from around the world to share and disseminate scientific knowledge and research results with a view toward new technologies for aerospace systems. The wide range of topics includes aircraft design, applied aerodynamics, atmospheric flight mechanics, design engineering, education, fluid dynamics, ground testing, history, homeland security, multidisciplinary design optimization, plasmadynamics and lasers, software systems, space exploration, systems engineering, thermophysics, and much more. A paper on Boundary Layer Loss Mechanism and Justification of Wall Functions for Turbulence Modeling presented at the 2004 Aerospace Sciences Meeting.