Ablative materials are commonly used to protect the nozzle metallic housing and to provide
the internal contour to expand the exhaust gases in both solid and hybrid rockets. Because …

Nozzle throat erosion in hybrid rocket engines is generally more emphasized than in solid
rockets due to a greater concentration of oxidizing species in the combustion products …

WITH the development of high-energy solid propellants and harder firing conditions in
advanced solid rocket motors (SRMs), graphite and carbon–carbon composites have found …

Ground testing of ablative materials aims at providing critical data on the material behavior
under hypersonic reentry conditions. This is normally done in plasma wind tunnel facilities …

WITH the development of high-energy solid propellants and harder firing conditions in
advanced solid rocket motors (SRM), carbon–carbon (C/C) materials have found increasing …

UPON exposure to ballistic reentry environments, ablative thermal protection systems (TPS)
are subjected to severe thermal and mechanical conditions and must be designed to keep …

A coupled fluid/thermal/ablation analysis for a carbon/carbon composite leading edge in
hypersonic reentry environments was conducted. A finite rate surface ablation model for …

Ablative materials are commonly used to protect the nozzle metallic housing and to provide
the internal contour to expand the exhaust gases in solid rocket motors. Because of the …

In the present study, surface mass and energy balances have been implemented in the
ablative boundary condition of a two-dimensional full Navier–Stokes solver, to take into …

SOLID-ROCKET motors (SRMs) generally do not have throttling capabilities so that the
duration and the delivered thrust are predetermined before ignition. The chamber pressure …