Near-field plume-surface interaction and regolith erosion and dispersal during the lunar landing

A Rahimi, O Ejtehadi, KH Lee, RS Myong - Acta Astronautica, 2020 - Elsevier
A rocket plume impinging on the lunar surface when a lunar lander approaches a landing
site can cause significant dust dispersal. This study investigated the near-field rocket plume …

[HTML][HTML] Investigation of shock and a dust cloud interaction in Eulerian framework using a newly developed OpenFOAM solver

O Ejtehadi, E Mahravan, I Sohn - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2021 - Elsevier
The current study documents the development of a new multiphase solver for the simulation
of dilute dusty gas flows in the OpenFOAM suite. Even though various solvers for simulation …

A modal discontinuous Galerkin method for simulating dusty and granular gas flows in thermal non-equilibrium in the Eulerian framework

O Ejtehadi, RS Myong - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
A modal discontinuous Galerkin method was developed for computing compressible
rarefied gaseous flows interacting with rigid particles and granular medium. In contrast to …

Full continuum approach for simulating plume-surface interaction in planetary landings

O Ejtehadi, RS Myong, I Sohn, BJ Kim - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A high-fidelity computational framework for predicting the interaction of a rocket plume with a
dust blanket in an almost vacuum ambient that represents the descent/ascend phase of …

Investigation of a trifold interaction mechanism of shock, vortex, and dust using a DG method in a two-fluid model framework

O Ejtehadi, A Rahimi, RS Myong - Powder Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
We investigate a trifold interaction mechanism of shock, vortex, and dust by solving the dusty
Schardin's problem. A modal discontinuous Galerkin method was developed for solving the …

Eulerian-Eulerian simulation of dusty gas flows past a prism from subsonic to supersonic regimes using a modal discontinuous Galerkin method

O Ejtehadi, RS Myong - Computers & Fluids, 2021 - Elsevier
The present work investigates the bubble formation and vortex shedding phenomena in the
viscous flow of a compressible gas seeded with dust particles. A new modal discontinuous …