Modification of chemical-kinetic parameters for 11-air species in re-entry flows

JG Kim, SM Jo - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2021 - Elsevier
The chemical-kinetic parameters for the two-temperature model for 11-air species are
modified to increase the accuracy of the thermochemical nonequilibrium model for high …

Collision integrals for N (4S)–N (4S), N (4S)–N (2D), and N (4S)–N (2P) interactions

Z Ding, Z Qin, L Liu - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Collision integrals for the scattering of nitrogen (N) atoms are essential to model transport
properties of air plasmas, which can be highly dependent on the species involved. At high …

Experimental study of surface roughness effect on oxygen catalytic recombination

I Kim, G Park, JJ Na - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2019 - Elsevier
The effect of surface roughness on a catalytic phenomenon has been experimentally
investigated. The test gas considered was a mixture of 21% oxygen and 79% argon by …

Thermochemical nonequilibrium modeling of oxygen in hypersonic air flows

JG Kim, SH Kang, SH Park - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2020 - Elsevier
The thermochemical nonequilibrium model for oxygen, O 2, in collisions with atmospheric
gas species, is modified in the present work. The vibrational relaxation time with high …

Experimental and numerical study of oxygen catalytic recombination of SiC-coated material

Y Yang, I Kim, G Park - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2019 - Elsevier
A combined experimental and numerical approach has been proposed to study the oxygen
catalytic recombination coefficient of SiC-coated material for two different types of surface …

Effect of titanium surface roughness on oxygen catalytic recombination in a shock tube

I Kim, Y Yang, G Park - Acta Astronautica, 2020 - Elsevier
Surface roughness and microscopic morphology are key factors influencing oxygen catalytic
recombination. Titanium is extensively used as a material for metallic thermal protection …

Electronic-state-resolved analysis of high-enthalpy air plasma flows

SM Jo, OJ Kwon, JG Kim - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
In the present study, three different electronic state-to-state methods are proposed to
analyze nonequilibrium air plasma flows behind a strong shock wave. In the first approach …

Determination of surface catalysis on copper oxide in a shock tube using thermochemical nonequilibrium CFD analysis

Y Yang, VRP Sethuraman, H Kim, JG Kim - Acta Astronautica, 2022 - Elsevier
A numerical assessment of both oxygen and nitrogen catalytic recombination efficiency on
copper oxide surface is conducted using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis …

Topology of the second-order constitutive model based on the Boltzmann–Curtiss kinetic equation for diatomic and polyatomic gases

S Singh, A Karchani, K Sharma, RS Myong - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The topological aspects of fluid flows have long been fascinating subjects in the study of the
physics of fluids. In this study, the topology of the second-order Boltzmann–Curtiss …

Transport collision integrals for C (5S)-H (2S), C (1S)-H (2S), C (1D)-H (2S), and C (3P)-H (2S) interactions

Z Hou, Z Qin, L Liu - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Transport collision integrals of interacting atoms or ions are essential in modeling transport
properties of high-temperature gases and plasmas. Here, we obtained the potential energy …