Carbon-bonded carbon fiber (CBCF) composites are considered as one of the most
promising candidates in thermal insulation applications owing to their lightweight, low …

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 …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2021-1629. vid Arc-jet testing is a
fundamental tool in the screening of thermal protection systems under atmospheric entry …

Elaborate methodologies have been developed to study the thermo-chemical response of
materials in high-enthalpy flows. To reach the high magnitudes of heat flux encountered in …

This paper investigates the effect of diffusion models on carbon ablation with a parametric
study on a slug-calorimeter geometry in arc-jet flow at two enthalpy conditions using two arc …

Supersonic plasma testing allows to achieve high heat flux and, in the case of ablative
samples, nonuniform recession. We propose a methodology to characterize the flow …

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Towards high-fidelity modeling of arc-jet environments and material response Advanced …