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Stefano Piacquadio, Dominik Pridöhl, Nils Henkel, Rasmus Bergström, Alessandro Zamprotta, Athanasios Dafnis and Kai-Uwe Schröder
Economic viability of small launch vehicles, i.e., microlaunchers, is impaired by several factors, one of which is a higher dry to wet mass ratio as compared to conventional size launchers. Although reusability may reduce launch cost, it can drive dry an...
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Xiaobin Wang, Peng Jiang, Yujian Tang, Pengfei Cheng and Weixu Zhang
Predicting the surface morphology of materials during steady-state ablation is important in rocket motor nozzles and the heat shields of vehicles performing atmospheric re-entry. When designing ablative materials, a high number of calculations is require...
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Zheng Han, Zhihui Li, Zhiyong Bai, Xuguo Li and Jiazhong Zhang
There has been a concern that the accurate numerical simulation of multi-body flow, which is caused by the multiple disintegrations of expired spacecraft re-entering into the near space, has a critical bottleneck impact on the falling area of the disinte...
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Panneerselvam Balaraman, Vijayaraj Stephen Joseph Raj and Veloorillom Madhavan Sreehari
High-speed aerospace applications, such as re-entry vehicles, mostly involve thin-walled structural components with a high strength-to-weight ratio and high-temperature resistant. The present novel work comprises the structural and thermal analysis of re...
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Francesco Di Caprio, Roberto Scigliano, Roberto Fauci and Domenico Tescione
Re-entry winged body vehicles have several advantages w.r.t capsules, such as maneuverability and controlled landing opportunity. On the other hand, they show an increment in design level complexity, especially from an aerodynamic, aero-thermodynamic, an...
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Deep Bandivadekar and Edmondo Minisci
Aerothermodynamic heating is one of the primary challenges faced in progressing towards reliable hypersonic transportation. In the present study, the transpiration cooling method applied to the thermal protection system of re-entry vehicles is investigat...
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The development of Li-ion batteries has enabled the re-entry of electric vehicles into the market. As car manufacturers strive to reach higher practical specific energies (550 Wh/kg) than what is achievable for Li-ion batteries, new alternatives for batt...
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Ambreen Nisar and Kantesh Balani
The refractory diborides (HfB2 and ZrB2) are considered as promising ultra-high temperature ceramic (UHTCs) where low damage tolerance limits their application for the thermal protection system in re-entry vehicles. In this regard, SiC and CNT have been ...
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