December 5, 2014
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
[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
[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
[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
March 30, 2014
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
February 11, 2014
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.
February 13, 2013
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
February 9, 2012
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
