During orbital maneuvers and proximity operations, a spacecraft fires its thrusters inducing plume impingement loads, heating and contamination to itself and to any other nearby spacecraft. These thruster firings are generally modeled using a combination of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and DSMC simulations. The Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight EXperiment(SPIFEX) produced data that can be compared to a high fidelity simulation. Due to the size of the Shuttle thrusters this problem was too resource intensive to be solved with DSMC when the experiment flew in 1994.
DSMC simulations of the Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight EXperiment(SPIFEX)
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The Load Measurement System (LMS) of the Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight Experiment
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1996
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