Experimental meteors are produced by exposing samples of meteoritic material to an air
plasma flow in an arcjet driven plasma wind tunnel facility, simulating the aerothermal …

Optical emission spectra between 522–580 nm of ablating meteorites have been recorded
at frame rates as high as 1 kHz for the first time during ground testing with simultaneous …

An Argon plasma free jet is investigated using spectrally narrow bandpass filtered high-
speed imaging. The images were captured at 16 kHz with an exposure time of 3.9 μs and …

Ablative thermal protection system (TPS) has been used to protect a vehicle from the heat
load experienced during hypersonic or re-entry flights. Typical materials for ablative TPS are …

A method for assessing the performance of typical heat shield materials is presented in this
paper. Three different material samples, the DLR material Zuram, the Airbus material Asterm …

This paper presents an experimental approach to inversely determine surface heat flux from
surface temperature data for an arbitrary body. The relation between heat flux and …

Wall partial pressure dependence analysis of oxygen surface catalytic recombination
efficiency on copper-coated surface is experimentally performed in a shock tube at room …

This paper presents spatially resolved measurements of absolute particle densities of N 2, N
2+, N, O, N+, O+, e− and excitation temperatures of electronic, rotational and vibrational …

This article describes a novel high frame rate emission spectroscopy setup developed for
measurements in high enthalpy flow fields. The optical setup and the associated hardware …

This work explores the potentials of SiC fiber reinforced SiC matrix composites (SiC f/SiC)
with SiC coating to resist aerodynamic ablations for thermal protection purpose. A plasma …