Arcjet facilities have been used extensively for ablation and materials characterization but arcjets do not correctly simulate the hypervelocity flow during reentry. Impulse facilities can simulate aspects of hypervelocity reentry flows, but cannot duplicate the extended-duration thermal environments. To address such deficiencies in short-duration testing environments, a novel plasma technique for preheating axisymmetric samples of heat-shield materials has been developed. The heating technique has been demonstrated using a short-duration blow-down arrangement at the University of Southern Queensland. A 50-mm-diameter graphite disk sample with a uniform thickness of 2 mm was heated from the downstream side with plasma to approximately 2500 K, and then it was exposed to a cold Mach 4.5 flow. The disk was mounted on an experimental probe that was very similar to the European standard probe, normal to the flow. Future applications for the technique are expected to be found in expansion tube facilities that can simulate the true flow energy under reentry conditions.


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    Title :

    Technique Development for Investigating Axisymmetric Ablation Models in Hypersonic Impulse Facilities


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 59 , 6 ; 1899-1913


    Publication date :

    2021-06-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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