Gas Surface Interactions Lab

March 30, 2014

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


February 11, 2014

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


February 13, 2013

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


February 9, 2012

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


October 24, 2011

Seminar on TPS design, November 1st

Dr. Ioana Cozmuta, from NASA Ames, will be giving a seminar, as part of the William Maxwell Reed seminar series. More info here: Abstract and Bio (PDF)


October 18, 2011

Re-entry science in the 60s

From the NASA NIX server:

Aerodynamic Heating and Deceleration During Entry into Planetary Atmospheres. Dr. Chapman's lecture examines the physics behind spacecraft entry into planetary atmospheres. He explains how scientists determine if a planet has an atmosphere and how scientists can compute deceleration when the atmospheric conditions are unknown. Symbols and equations used for calculations for aerodynamic heating and deceleration are provided. He also explains heat transfer in bodies approaching an atmosphere, deceleration, and the use of ablation in protecting spacecraft from high temperatures during atmospheric entry. [Entire movie available on DVD from CASI as Doc ID 20070030962. Contact help@sti.nasa.gov]

Aerodynamic Heating and Deceleration During Entry into Planetary Atmospheres