High fidelity and multi-scale thermal response modeling of an Avcoat-like thermal protection system material

Saurabh S. Sawant, Abhilash Harpale, Revathi Jambunathan, Huck Beng Chew, Deborah A. Levin

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Abstract

This paper presents a high fidelity, multi-scale thermal response models for a multi­phase syntactic foam as a candidate Thermal Protection System (TPS) material, similar to AVCOAT. Scale-bridging molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to characterize the ablation chemistry and to obtain the thermal recession rate. The latter is used in Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) simulations to model gas transport, heat transfer, and TPS material recession at the meso-scale level utilizing a strategy to loosely couple DSMC with the thermal response of the syntactic foam. The effect of interstitial void fraction on the steady state temperature profile of the material structure is explored.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAIAA SciTech Forum - 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting
PublisherAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781624104473
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting - Grapevine, United States
Duration: Jan 9 2017Jan 13 2017

Publication series

NameAIAA SciTech Forum - 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Other

Other55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityGrapevine
Period1/9/171/13/17

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Aerospace Engineering

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