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 …

Abstract Thermal Protection Systems (TPS) material response models rely on the
assumption of local thermal equilibrium (LTE) between the solid phase and the gas phase …

Many engineering applications involve reacting porous materials submitted to high
temperatures. This work presents a detailed but pragmatic heat and mass transfer model for …

We study the ablation and transient pyrolysis outgassing of the carbon-phenolic ablators
AQ61 and Asterm in air and nitrogen plasmas. We investigate their resistance to high …

High-temperature thermal energy storage (TES) in packed beds is gaining interest for
industrial energy recovery. The wide range of temperature distributions causes significant …

Ablative materials are used in thermal protection systems for atmospheric re-entry vehicle
heat shields. A detailed chemical equilibrium heat and mass transport model for porous …

A novel equilibrium ablation and thermal response model for NASA's Phenolic Impregnated
Carbon Ablator (PICA) is presented. For the first time, the model accounts for the effect of …

Arc-jet facilities play a primary role in recreating aerothermal conditions experienced by
atmospheric entry vehicles and are widely used to test the performance of thermal protection …

Abstract The Porous Microstructure Analysis (PuMA) software has been developed in order
to compute effective material properties and perform material response simulations on …

Abstract The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) was protected during Mars atmospheric entry
by a 4.5 meter diameter heatshield, which was constructed by assembling 113 thermal tiles …