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.


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    Title :

    DSMC simulations of the Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight EXperiment(SPIFEX)


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) Conference 2017 ; 2017 ; Santa Fe, NM, United States


    Publication date :

    2017-08-29


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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