This paper outlines the initial development of a novel magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) plasma control system which aims at mitigating shock-induced heating and the radio-frequency …
During the atmospheric entry phase at hypersonic speed, the radio communication from/to a space vehicle can be disrupted due to the formation of a plasma sheath within the …
R Vandenhoeck, A Lani, J Steelant - Computer Physics Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
This work presents the development of the first high-order Flux Reconstruction (FR) solver for flows governed by the compressible Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) …
PL Collen, M Satchell, L di Mare… - AIAA SciTech 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-0267. vid A fundamental aspect of atmospheric entry flow-fields is the complex interaction between non-equilibrium …
Y Takahashi - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A communication blackout is one of the major problems that occurs during the reentry of a satellite into the Earth's atmosphere, which is caused by the reentry plasma blocking …
Shock tube experiments are used to investigate non-equilibrium thermochemistry and radiative processes in reacting gas hypersonic flows. Boundary layer and shock structure …
Complex processes related to nonequilibrium thermochemistry and radiation are a fundamental aspect of atmospheric entry flowfields. Shock tubes provide a means of …
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-0154. vid This work presents a numerical methodology to properly characterize and predict the communications blackout …