Gas Surface Interactions Lab

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


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