Shock-tube study of spallation phenomena at strong shock wave interaction with graphite surface

PV Kozlov, GY Gerasimov, VY Levashov, MA Kotov… - Acta Astronautica, 2025 - Elsevier
Flight safety during the motion of a descent spacecraft in the Earth's atmosphere primarily
depends on the reliability of the heat-protective layer on its surface. Such layers typically …

Implementation of Chemical Non-Equilibrium in a Hypersonic Unified CFD Solver

S Baeg, R Davuluri, A Martin - AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
Modeling the interaction between hypersonic flow and ablative material has been conducted
by coupling a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver to a material response solver. The …