Gas Surface Interactions Lab

May 2, 2015

New paper!

New paper just published in the AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer!

[1] Davuluri, R. S. C., Zhang, H., and Martin, A., “Numerical study of spallation phenomenon in an arc-jet environment,” Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, vol. 29, no. 3, 2015.
doi:10.2514/1.T4586.


April 19, 2015

Two new journal papers in the Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

[1] Martin, A. and Boyd, I. D., “Modeling of heat transfer attenuation by ablative gases during the Stardust re-entry,” Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 29, No. 3, July 2015.
DOI: 10.2514/1.T4202
[2] Weng, H. and Martin, A., “Numerical Investigation of Thermal Response Using Orthotropic Charring Ablative Material,” Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 29, No. 3, July 2015.
DOI: 10.2514/1.T4576


February 11, 2015

Dr. Francesco Panerai on IXV

Dr. Francesco Panerai, Research Associate in the research group, is being interview for the IXV re-entry demonstrator:
http://uknow.uky.edu/content/uk-postdoctoral-scholar-contributes-europes-experimental-spaceplane


January 12, 2015

Two new papers!

Two new papers are available. The first from the AIAA SciTech2015 conference:

Weng, H. and Martin, A., “Numerical Investigation of Geometric Effects of Stardust Return Capsule Heat Shield,” 53rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Paper 2015-0211, Kissimmee, FL, January 5-9 2015.
DOI: 10.2514/6.2015-0211

The second from the Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer:

Martin, A., Boyd, I. D., Cozmuta, I., and Wright, M. J., “Kinetic rates for gas phase chemistry of phenolic based carbon ablator decomposition in atmospheric air,” Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 2015.
DOI: 10.2514/1.T4184


January 9, 2015

New paper in Int. J. of Heat and Mass Trans.!

A new paper by Nima Nouri and Alexandre Martin has been published in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0017931014011491


December 5, 2014

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 !!!


December 5, 2014

New NASA Award!

New NASA award to work on the fundamental properties of heat shields:
http://uknow.uky.edu/content/nasa-awards-uk-researcher-500000-early-stag...


October 29, 2014

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


October 17, 2014

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


September 20, 2014

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

[2] Alkandry, H., Boyd, I. D., and Martin, A., “Comparison of Models for Mixture Transport Properties for Flow Field Simulations of Ablative Heat-Shields,” Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2014.
doi:10.2514/1.T4233