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 …

The Porous-material Analysis Toolbox based on OpenFOAM is a fully portable OpenFOAM
library. It is implemented to test innovative multiscale physics-based models for reacting …

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 …

Porous carbon fiber materials are used as effective insulators in many applications where
high temperatures are involved. In particular, they are used as the substrate of ablative …

Oxidation is one of the main decomposition mechanisms of fibrous carbon/phenolic ablators
employed in thermal protection systems for planetary entry capsules. The oxidation process …

A series of experiments was performed to obtain permeability data on FiberForm®, a
commercial carbon preform used for manufacturing thermal protection systems. A porous …

The origin and behavior of particles resulting from the spallation of ablative thermal
protection materials was investigated using an arc-jet wind tunnel. Particle tracking …

Carbon/Carbon composites used in rocket propulsion contain many process-related pores
and have a porosity-dependent oxidation recession rate. A 1D analytical model has been …

Predicting permeability over a wide range of thermodynamic and geometric conditions is
necessary to understand the transport of fluid through porous materials. Permeability is …