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Student award

Congratulation to Justin Cooper who just won the 1st place in the 2014 Oswald Research and Creativity Competition, Physical & Engineering Sciences category for his paper titled: Flux Matching scheme for the Computation of Accurate Boundary Conditions on a Moving Mesh !!!

New paper in Int. J. of Heat and Mass Transfer

[1] Weng, H., Bailey, S. C. C., and Martin, A., “Numerical study of geometrical effects on charring ablative arc-jet samples,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 80, January 2015, pp. 570–596.doi: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2014.09.040

New paper in Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

[1] Martin, A. and Boyd, I. D., “Strongly coupled computation of material response and nonequilibrium flow for hypersonic ablation,” Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 52, No. 1, January 2015.doi:10.2514/1.A32847

Two new Journal Articles available!

[1] Weng, H. and Martin, A., “Multi-dimensional modeling of pyrolysis gas transport inside charring ablative materials,” Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2014.doi:10.2514/1.T4434

New Paper!

Francesco Panerai, Alexandre Martin, Nagi N. Mansour, Steven A. Sepka, and Jean Lachaud. "Flow-Tube Oxidation Experiments on the Carbon Preform of a Phenolic-Impregnated Carbon Ablator". Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2014.doi: 10.2514/1.T4265

New paper available!

Miller, M. A., Martin, A., and Bailey, S. C. C., “Investigation of the scaling of roughness and blowing effects on turbulent channel flow.” Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 55, No. 1675, 2014. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00348-014-1675-y

Herald-Leader article

http://www.kentucky.com/2013/07/21/2725191/university-of-kentucky-resear...

NASA Award

More information here: http://www.engr.uky.edu/news/2013/07/mechanical-engineering-research-team-wins-multi-year-nasa-grant/

Gordon Research Conference on Atmospheric Reentry Physics

Gordon Research Conference on Atmospheric Reentry Physics Fundamentals of Environment-Materials Interactions, Models and Design Approaches to Meet Emerging Space Needs   http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2013&program=atmosentry

5th Ablation Workshop in Lexington, KY

The 5th Ablation Workshop will be held right here, in Lexington, KY, from Feb. 28th to March 1st. More information can be found here: ablation2012.engineering.uky.edu

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