Fostrad: An advanced open source tool for re-entry analysis

A Falchi, V Renato, E Minisci… - 15th Reinventing Space …, 2017‏ - pureportal.strath.ac.uk
This work responds to the need of modeling the atmospheric re-entry of space debris,
satellites, and spacecraft quickly, efficiently and with a reasonable reliability. The Free Open …

Global sensitivity analysis of stochastic re-entry trajectory using explainable surrogate models

PS Palar, R Stevenson, MR Alhafiz, MD Robani… - Acta Astronautica, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The assessment of casualty risks associated with re-entry necessitates a comprehensive
analysis of trajectories and the examination of pertinent safety-related quantities such as the …

Sensitivity analysis and probabilistic re-entry modeling for debris using high dimensional model representation based uncertainty treatment

PM Mehta, M Kubicek, E Minisci, M Vasile - Advances in Space Research, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Well-known tools developed for satellite and debris re-entry perform break-up and trajectory
simulations in a deterministic sense and do not perform any uncertainty treatment. The …

Parameterized Reduced-Order Models for Probabilistic Analysis of Thermal Protection System Based on Proper Orthogonal Decomposition

K Zhang, J Yao, W Zhu, Z Cao, T Li, J **n - Aerospace, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
The thermal protection system (TPS) represents one of the most critical subsystems for
vehicle re-entry. However, due to uncertainties in thermal loads, material properties, and …

Aero-thermal re-entry sensitivity analysis using DSMC and a high dimensional model representation-based approach

A Falchi, E Minisci, M Vasile… - … Conference on Space …, 2017‏ - pureportal.strath.ac.uk
This paper presents a sensitivity analysis for the hypersonic aero-thermal convective heat
transfer from the free molecular to the slip-flow regime for cylindrical and cubic geometries …

DSMC-based correction factor for low-fidelity hypersonic aerodynamics of re-entering objects and space debris

A Falchi, E Minisci, M Vasile… - … for Aeronautics and …, 2017‏ - pureportal.strath.ac.uk
This work investigates the differences between hypersonic aerodynamic coefficients
computed with two different tools, having two different levels of fidelity: a high fidelity code …

Estimating drag and heating coefficients for hollow reentry objects in transitional flow using DSMC

JJ Marichalar, CL Ostrom - International Orbital Debris Conference …, 2019‏ - ntrs.nasa.gov
In NASA's Object Reentry Survival Analysis Tool (ORSAT), aerodynamic drag and
aerothermal heating coefficients are computed for each of the free-molecular, continuum …

Multi-stage multi-fidelity information correction for artificial neural network based meta-modelling

B Parsonage, CA Maddock - 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-fidelity meta-modelling has become a popular means of efficiently distributing
computational resource across various levels of simulation fidelity to obtain numerically …

High dimensional uncertainty propagation for hypersonic flows and entry propagation

M Kubicek - 2018‏ - stax.strath.ac.uk
To solve complex design problems, engineers cannot avoid to take into account the involved
uncertainties. This is important for the analysis and design of hypersonic objects and …

[PDF][PDF] Thermal Sensitivity Analysis of a Telemetry Antenna in Sub-Orbital Spaceflights

M Talafi Noghani, M Nadjafi - … Journal of Reliability, Risk and Safety …, 2021‏ - academia.edu
A thermal sensitivity analysis is performed for an Inverted-F antenna (IFA) at the worst-case
thermal condition (reentry phase) of a typical sub-orbital sounding-rocket spaceflight …