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Impact of non-equilibrium radiation in a high-enthalpy inductively coupled plasma wind tunnel
Sanjeev Kumar, Sung Min Jo, Alessandro Munafò +1
High-power inductively coupled plasma (ICP) wind tunnels are widely used to reproduce high-enthalpy environments relevant to atmospheric entry and hypersonic testing. Despite their…
From Coils to Surface Recession: Multiphysics Simulation of Ablation in ICP Wind Tunnels
Sanjeev Kumar, Alessandro Munafo, Blaine Vollmer +4
This work presents a multi-solver, coupled computational framework for predicting the thermo-chemical material response of thermal protection systems in inductively coupled plasma…
Master equation study of three-body recombination of nitrogen and oxygen in non-equilibrium hypersonic flows
Aakanksha Notey, Sung Min Jo, Marco Panesi
This work aims to study the energy transfer and recombination processes in N+N and O$\left(^{3}\sum^{+}_{g}\right…
Numerical analysis of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic effects in an inductively coupled plasma wind tunnel
Sanjeev Kumar, Alessandro Munafo, Daniel J Bodony +1
This paper introduces a three-dimensional model for the 350 kW Plasmatron X inductively coupled plasma facility at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, designed for testing…
Multi-Group Maximum Entropy Method: Modeling Translational Non-Equilibrium
Anthony Chang, Narendra Singh, Marco Panesi
The most rigorous physical description of non-equilibrium gas dynamics is rooted in the numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation. Yet, the large number of degrees of freedom an…
Numerical Investigation of Radiative Transfers Interactions with Material Ablative Response for Hypersonic Atmospheric Entry
Vincent Le Maout, Sung Min Jo, Alessandro Munafò +1
Radiative transfer interactions with material ablation are critical contributors to vehicle heating during high-altitude, high-velocity atmospheric entry. However, the inherent com…
Non-Deterministic Extension of Plasma Wind Tunnel Data Calibrated Model Predictions to Flight Conditions
Przemyslaw Rostkowski, Jeremie B. E. Meurisse, Marco Panesi
This work proposes a novel approach for non-deterministic extension of experimental data that considers structural model inadequacy for conditions other than the calibration scenar…
Multi-domain analysis and prediction of the light emitted by an inductively coupled plasma jet
Lorenzo Capponi, Alberto Padovan, Gregory S. Elliott +3
Inductively coupled plasma wind tunnels are crucial for replicating hypersonic flight conditions in ground testing. Achieving the desired conditions (e.g., stagnation-point heat fl…
An Extended B' Formulation for Ablating-Surface Boundary Conditions
Alberto Padovan, Blaine Vollmer, Francesco Panerai +3
The B' formulation can be understood as a mass and energy conservation formalism at a reacting singular surface. In hypersonics applications, it is typically used to compute the ch…