The Porous-material Analysis Toolbox based on OpenFOAM is a fully portable OpenFOAM
library. It is implemented to test innovative multiscale physics-based models for reacting …

A unique numerical method has been developed for solving one-dimensional ablation heat
transfer problems. This paper provides a comprehensive description of the method, along …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-1501. vid Reentry and hypersonic
vehicles are exposed to high temperatures during flight that require the use of thermal …

A new two-dimensional ablation analysis code (MOPAR-MD) capable of modeling
pyrolyzing thermal protection system materials is presented. Favorable agreement with …

This test-case series on the numerical simulation of the response of ablative-materials really
started out of pure curiosity. Code developers and users were curious to see" how the codes …

Ablative materials are extensively used in aerospace applications to protect the integrity of
the spacecraft during atmospheric entry. Both thermal and mechanical stresses have to be …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-3327. vid This work discusses the
ablative response of thermal protection system materials when exposed to aerothermal …

The exploration programs of our solar system involve the design of manned or unmanned
spacecraft that enter a planet atmosphere at hypersonic velocity. After the successful …

An implicit coupling framework for hypersonic nonequilibrium flows and material thermal
responses is proposed for numerical simulations of ablative thermal protection materials …

Charring composites are widely used in the thermal protection system (TPS) to consume the
intense aerodynamic heating during vehicle reentry. The ablation and thermal responses for …