Validation and analysis of a coupled fluid-ablation framework for modeling low-temperature ablator

AL Zibitsker, JA McQuaid, C Brehm, A Martin - International Journal of Heat …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ablation of certain highly volatile materials, such as camphor, naphthalene, and dry ice, can
be achieved at relatively mild hypersonic conditions in unheated wind tunnels. This provides …

Automated Unstructured Quad/Hex Meshing for High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin CFD

M Smith-Pierce, S Ruffin, D Dement - AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
We propose a new automated quad/hex meshing technique which derives an unstructured
body-fitted mesh from a Cartesian background mesh with hanging-node refinement. This …