@article{13a51b96e7964691ae823db070b33617,
title = "A high heating rate pyrolysis model for the Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator (PICA) based on mass spectroscopy experiments",
abstract = "A novel model for the pyrolysis of the Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator (PICA) at high heating rate is developed and calibrated based on high fidelity thermal decomposition experiments. The calibration relies on accurate quantification of pyrolysis gases obtained from mass spectroscopy analysis during thermal decomposition at fast heating rates simulating flight conditions. Model calibration is achieved by coupling the Porous material Analysis Toolbox based on OpenFOAM (PATO) with an optimization software (Dakota). A multi-objective genetic algorithm is used to fit the experimental data by optimizing the model parameters for an element and a species-based formulation. The new model captures both the material mass loss and the gaseous species produced during pyrolysis.",
keywords = "Carbon/phenolic composite, Kinetics, Thermal degradation",
author = "Francisco Torres-Herrador and Meurisse, {Jeremie B.E.} and Francesco Panerai and Julien Blondeau and Jean Lachaud and Bessire, {Brody K.} and Magin, {Thierry E.} and Mansour, {Nagi N.}",
note = "Funding Information: The research of F. Torres Herrador is supported by SB PhD fellowship 1S58718N of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Funding Information: This work is supported by the Entry Systems Modeling project (M.J. Wright project manager, M.D. Barnhardt principal investigator) as part of the NASA Game Changing Development program. Funding Information: The research of F. Torres Herrador is supported by SB PhD fellowship 1S58718N of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). This work is supported by the Entry Systems Modeling project (M.J. Wright project manager, M.D. Barnhardt principal investigator) as part of the NASA Game Changing Development program. Gregory Pinaud (ArianeGroup) is acknowledged for the fruitful discussions on the modeling of pyrolysis. We would like to thank Pr. Contat-Rodrigo (Universitat Polit{\`e}cnica de Val{\`e}ncia) for her guidance on the thermal analysis of decomposing materials. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Elsevier B.V.",
year = "2019",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1016/j.jaap.2019.05.014",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "141",
journal = "Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis",
issn = "0165-2370",
publisher = "Elsevier",
}