Research progress of transpiration cooling for aircraft thermal protection

Q Mi, SH Yi, DD Gang, XG Lu, XL Liu - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The challenge of aerodynamic heating in hypersonic vehicles becomes more significant as
they reach higher Mach numbers, which poses a major obstacle in aircraft design. The …

Conjugate Heat Transfer in High-Speed External Flows: A Review

MT Lewis, JP Hickey - Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
THERMAL management systems are an important consideration in modern aerospace
engineering. Managing the maximum heat load at the fluid–solid interface is necessary in …

Thermal performance analysis on a volumetric solar receiver with double-layer ceramic foam

X Chen, XL Xia, XL Meng, XH Dong - Energy Conversion and Management, 2015 - Elsevier
Using porous materials has become an effective means to enhance heat transfer. Volumetric
receiver is a key component inside the solar thermal systems. The novel concept using …

Experimental investigations of transpiration cooling applied to C/C material

T Langener, J von Wolfersdorf, M Selzer… - International Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
In today's rocket thrust chambers extremely high heat loads are apparent. Reducing these
loads in combination with a reduction of the thrust chamber's structural weight can be …

Experimental investigation of transpiration cooling for sintered woven wire mesh structures

G Xu, Y Liu, X Luo, J Ma, H Li - International journal of heat and mass …, 2015 - Elsevier
Experiments were conducted to investigate the transpiration cooling performance of the
sintered woven wire mesh structures with different porosities at various blowing ratios in this …

Derivation and analysis of a 1D porous medium flow solver embedded in a two-domain model for 2D and 3D transpiration cooling

M Rom, S Müller - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2022 - Elsevier
For the numerical investigation of transpiration cooling problems, often two-domain models
are used. Different systems of governing equations are solved in a hot gas and a porous …

Optimization transpiration cooling of nose cone with non-uniform permeability

N Wu, J Wang, F He, L Chen, B Ai - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2018 - Elsevier
With the development of active thermal protection techniques (TPTs), optimization
transpiration cooling (OTC) design, to enhance the cooling effect in stagnation regions and …

Influence of shock waves on supersonic transpiration cooling

P Jiang, Z Liao, Z Huang, Y Xiong, Y Zhu - International Journal of Heat and …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper experimentally and numerically investigates the effect of shock waves on
transpiration cooling of a porous plate. The experiments were conducted in a wind tunnel of …

Analysis of a transpiration cooled LOX/CH4 rocket thrust chamber

DJ Munk, M Selzer, H Seiler, M Ortelt, GA Vio - International Journal of Heat …, 2022 - Elsevier
Transpiration cooling has been theoretically identified as a more efficient thermal protection
system, compared to regenerative and film cooling techniques. The availability of porous …

Numerical boundary layer investigations of transpiration-cooled turbulent channel flow

W Dahmen, S Müller, M Rom, S Schweikert… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Transpiration cooling is an active cooling technique able to reduce thermal loads of
applications exposed to extreme operation conditions. A coolant is driven through a porous …