Fully implicit Discontinuous Galerkin solver to study surface and volume ablation competition in atmospheric entry flows

Schrooyen, Pierre; Hillewaert, Koen; Magin, Thierry; Chatelain, Philippe

doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2016.07.022

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Fully implicit Discontinuous Galerkin solver to study surface and volume ablation competition in atmospheric entry flows

Schrooyen, Pierre; Hillewaert, Koen; Magin, Thierry et al.

2016 • In International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 103, p. 108-124

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Ablation; Porous medium; Reactive flows; Atmospheric entry; Discontinuous Galerkin

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[en] The interaction between a chemically reactive boundary layer and an ablative material is one of the most challenging phenomena to model when predicting the heat load during atmospheric entries of spacecraft. The gas-material interactions are usually assumed to occur at the surface while the ablation of new low density materials in strong diffusion regime is rather a volume phenomenon that should be captured to accurately predict the recession rate. This paper presents a continuum approach developed to go progressively from a plain fluid region to a porous medium in order to capture interactions between ablation and the boundary layer. The tool is developed using high order Discontinuous Galerkin discretization. The unified tool is verified against several test cases of increasing physical complexity. The replication of an experiment conducted in the NASA Ames flow tube facility which concerns the ablation of carbon fibers by a low Reynolds flow is subsequently presented. Comparison with experimental results shows the limits of current models to capture the competition between surface and volume ablation. We propose a new model to account for micro scale phenomena during the oxidation of the carbon fibers. The proposed model leads to a good agreement with experimental data and shows the importance of having more micro-scale information on the erosion of the fibers.

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Mechanical engineering
Aerospace & aeronautics engineering

Author, co-author :

Schrooyen, Pierre; Cenaero

Hillewaert, Koen ; Cenaero

Magin, Thierry ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'aérospatiale et mécanique > Département d'aérospatiale et mécanique

Chatelain, Philippe; Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL

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English

Title :

Fully implicit Discontinuous Galerkin solver to study surface and volume ablation competition in atmospheric entry flows

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2016

Journal title :

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

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0017-9310

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1879-2189

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Elsevier, United Kingdom

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103

Pages :

108-124

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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