Ablative thermal protection systems have experienced renewed interest in the past decade
owing to the retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle fleet and the US presidential mandate to …

In recent years, high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods have emerged as an
attractive approach for numerical simulations of compressible flows. This paper presents an …

This study is concerned with predicting surface heat transfer in viscous hypersonic flows
using high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods. Currently, finite-volume (FV) …

Ablation of certain highly volatile materials, such as camphor, naphthalene, and dry ice, can
be achieved at relatively mild hypersonic conditions in unheated wind tunnels. This provides …

Thermomechanical analysis of ablative materials is of great importance to the design of
thermal-protection systems. A finite volume method for coupling the mechanical and thermal …

Numerical methods are developed to simulate high temperature gas flow and coupled
surface reactions, relevant to porous thermal protection systems used by hypersonic …

Micro scale simulations are performed of flow through porous (pyrolyzing) thermal protection
system (TPS) materials using the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. DSMC …

Ground testing of ablative materials aims at providing critical data on the material behavior
under hypersonic reentry conditions. This is normally done in plasma wind tunnel facilities …

Effective permeability of a porous carbon composite used as thermal protection system on
space capsules is computed using the direct simulation Monte Carlo technique. The …

One of the major drivers of heat transfer within a spacecraft heatshield is the effective
thermal conductivity of the thermal protection material. For carbon-based thermal protection …