thermochemical ablation of carbon/carbon composites with non-linear thermal conductivity
;Li Wei-Jie;Huang Hai-Ming;Hu Yu-Meng
Nature2014Vol. 18pp. 1625-1629
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wei-jie2014thermalthermochemical
Abstract
Carbon/carbon composites have been typically used to protect a rocket nozzle
from high temperature oxidizing gas. Based on the Fourier’s law of heat
conduction and the oxidizing ablation mechanism, the ablation model with
non-linear thermal conductivity for a rocket nozzle is established in order
to simulate the one-dimensional thermochemical ablation rate on the surface
and the temperature distributions by using a written computer code. As the
presented results indicate, the thermochemical ablation rate of a solid
rocket nozzle calculated by using actual thermal conductivity, which is a
function of temperature, is higher than that by a constant thermal
conductivity, so the effect of thermal conductivity on the ablation rate of a
solid rocket nozzle made of carbon/carbon composites cannot be neglected.