RELIABLE prediction of the high heat transfer rates experienced during the hypersonic
portion of planetary entry and descent is critical to vehicle survival. Two types of sensors that …

Surface thermocouples are widely used in transient aerodynamic heating measurements,
but their response often exhibits uncertainty and unpredictability, resulting in poor accuracy …

Fast-response coaxial surface junction thermocouples have been used to measure time-
resolved stagnation temperature of the Mach 6 flow produced by the University of Southern …

The two most important modes of flow instability are observed on a flat-faced cylinder fitted
with a spike, namely, pulsation and oscillation. A new technique is proposed in this article to …

A robust fast-response calorimeter heat transfer gauge called the Diamond Heat Transfer
Gauge has been developed for use in transient hypersonic ground test facilities. Gauges …

The turbulent spot propagation process in boundary layer flows of air, nitrogen, carbon
dioxide, and air/carbon dioxide mixtures in thermochemical nonequilibrium at high enthalpy …

A new calibration technique, in which the thermal product and thermoelectric coefficient are
treated as one integrated coefficient, is applied to calibrate thin-film gauges (TFGs) and …

Coaxial thermocouples have been widely used for transient heat transfer measurements in
high-enthalpy shock tunnels. The one-dimensional semi-infinite heat conduction theory is …

Fast response heat flux gauges relying on the semi-infinite heat conduction principle have
commonly been used to study heat flux in impulse test facilities such as expansion tubes …

A solution of the coupled differential equations for fluid and solid phases in a one-
dimensional porous medium in thermal nonequilibrium is presented using the concept of …