Experimental assessment of the performance of ablative heat shield materials from plasma wind tunnel testing

A method for assessing the performance of typical heat shield materials is presented in this paper. Three different material samples, the DLR material ZURAM, the Airbus material ASTERM and the carbon preform CALCARB were tested in the IRS plasma wind tunnel PWK1 at the same nominal condition. State...

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Main Authors: Löhle, S, Hermann, T, Zander, F
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2017