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 …

Ablative thermal protection systems have experienced renewed interest in the past decade
owing to the retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle fleet and the US presidential mandate to …

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 …

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 …

Material properties and oxidation behavior of low-density felts used as substrates for
conformal carbon/phenolic ablators were compared with those of a rigid carbon fiber …

Molar yields of the pyrolysis products of thermal protection systems (TPSs) are needed in
order to improve high fidelity material response models. The volatile chemical species …

Many engineering applications involve reacting porous materials submitted to high
temperatures. This work presents a detailed but pragmatic heat and mass transfer model for …

We study the ablation and transient pyrolysis outgassing of the carbon-phenolic ablators
AQ61 and Asterm in air and nitrogen plasmas. We investigate their resistance to high …

Under hypersonic flow conditions, the heat and mass transfer at the gas-solid interface of
thermal protection material becomes highly complicated due to the strong chemical and …

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 …