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 …

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 …

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 …

To understand the ablation mechanism of materials is crucial for the design of thermal
protection system (TPS) for manned reentry vehicles. To investigate the thermal behavior of …

Thermomechanical analysis of ablative materials is of great importance to the design of
thermal-protection systems. A finite volume method for coupling the mechanical and thermal …

This paper presents a new data-driven adaptive computational model for simulating
turbulent flow, where partial-but-incomplete measurement data is available. The model …

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 …

Ablation is the process by which a material, when exposed to an extreme thermal
environment, sacrifices mass through thermal and chemical processes such as sublimation …

An orthotropic material model is implemented in a three-dimensional material response
code, and numerically studied for charring ablative material. Model comparison is performed …