Large, global dust storms that periodically form in the Martian atmosphere pose a threat to NASA missions due to a lack of understanding of how they will affect the heat loading and mass loss of the entry vehicle’s thermal protection system (TPS). Previous studies have laid out viable methodologies for estimating the amount of surface recession from a significant dust storm, but rely on underlying modeling assumptions that are difficult to validate. The current work utilizes the DUST library, which is a Lagrangian particle solver under development at NASA Ames Research Center. DUST includes variable-fidelity fluid-particle coupling and has been tested for a wide range of problem types. The DUST library is used in conjunction with the US3D Naiver-Stokes solver. Using these tools, a sensitivity study is performed to determine the influence of the underlying dust modeling (drag coefficient, Nusselt number, and size distribution) on the surface erosion through a hypersonic Martian entry trajectory. The surface erosion was found to be insensitive to the drag and heating models, but was affected significantly by the size distributions parameters. The total recession was comparable to the thermochemical ablation predicted by material response codes, but the lack of a particle erosion model for PICA limits the predictive capability of the current work.


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    Titel :

    Sensitivity Study of Dust-Induced Surface Erosion during Martian Planetary Entry


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    AIAA SciTech Forum ; 2022 ; San Diego, CA, US


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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