The Porous-material Analysis Toolbox based on OpenFOAM is a fully portable OpenFOAM library. It is implemented to test innovative multiscale physics-based models for reacting porous materials that undergo recession. Current developments are focused on ablative materials. The ablative material response module implemented in the Porous-material Analysis Toolbox relies on an original high-fidelity ablation model. The governing equations are volume-averaged forms of the conservation equations for gas mass, gas species, solid mass, gas momentum, and total energy. It may also simply be used as a state-of-the-art ablation model when the right model options are chosen. As applications, three physical analyses are presented: 1) volume-averaged study of the oxidation of a carbon-fiber preform under dry air, 2) three-dimensional analysis of the pyrolysis gas flow in a porous ablative material sample facing an arcjet, and 3) comparison of a state-of-the-art and a high-fidelity model for the thermal and chemical response of a carbon/phenolic ablative material.
Porous-Material Analysis Toolbox Based on OpenFOAM and Applications
Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer ; 28 , 2 ; 191-202
2014-04-01
Conference paper , Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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