Science and technology of polymeric ablative materials for thermal protection systems and propulsion devices: A review

M Natali, JM Kenny, L Torre - Progress in Materials Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Ablative materials are at the base of entire aerospace industry; these sacrificial materials are
used to manage the heat shielding of propulsion devices (such as liquid and Solid Rocket …

Porous-material analysis toolbox based on OpenFOAM and applications

J Lachaud, NN Mansour - Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 2014 - arc.aiaa.org
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 …

Experimental investigation on the validity of the local thermal equilibrium assumption in ablative-material response models

S Liu, A Ahmadi-Senichault, C Levet… - Aerospace Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Thermal Protection Systems (TPS) material response models rely on the
assumption of local thermal equilibrium (LTE) between the solid phase and the gas phase …

A generic local thermal equilibrium model for porous reactive materials submitted to high temperatures

J Lachaud, JB Scoggins, TE Magin, MG Meyer… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Many engineering applications involve reacting porous materials submitted to high
temperatures. This work presents a detailed but pragmatic heat and mass transfer model for …

Detailed chemical equilibrium model for porous ablative materials

J Lachaud, T Van Eekelen, JB Scoggins… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Ablative materials are used in thermal protection systems for atmospheric re-entry vehicle
heat shields. A detailed chemical equilibrium heat and mass transport model for porous …

Decomposition of phenolic impregnated carbon ablator (PICA) as a function of temperature and heating rate

BK Bessire, TK Minton - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2017 - ACS Publications
Material response models for phenolic-based thermal protection systems (TPSs) for
atmospheric entry are limited by the lack of knowledge of the nonequilibrium processes that …

Peridynamic modeling of thermal response and cracking in charring materials due to ablation

Y Zhang, D Behera, E Madenci - Engineering with Computers, 2024 - Springer
This study presents a 3D peridynamic (PD) model to simulate the pyrolysis process and
crack propagation of charring materials due to aerodynamic heating. The model is based on …

Assessment of a one-dimensional finite element charring ablation material response model for phenolic-impregnated carbon ablator

Y Wang, TK Risch, JH Koo - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, mathematical formulations to model charring ablation problems were
numerically implemented using finite element analysis (FEA) with ABAQUS, which account …

Fully implicit Discontinuous Galerkin solver to study surface and volume ablation competition in atmospheric entry flows

P Schrooyen, K Hillewaert, TE Magin… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The interaction between a chemically reactive boundary layer and an ablative material is
one of the most challenging phenomena to model when predicting the heat load during …

Numerical simulation of an arc jet test section

Ü Düzel, OM Schroeder, H Zhang… - Journal of Thermophysics …, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
High-fidelity modeling tools are essential for accurate predictions of planetary entry. The
same tools can also be used to interpret ground test data. A hypersonic aerothermodynamic …