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Title: Optimization of Leading Edge Thermal Protection Technology
Faculty: Iain Boyd, Jay McMahon
乐播传媒: Jens Rataczak
Funding Partner: NASA Ames Research Center
Synopsis: Identify hypersonic flight conditions to determine the optimal performance regimes of a new thermal protection technology being developed at NASA.
Title: Effects of Hypersonic Material Ablation on Structural Response 听
Faculty: Iain Boyd, Kurt Maute
乐播传媒: Jenny Horing,听Sam Gates
Funding Partner: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Synopsis: Determine effects of material ablation during hypersonic flight on basic structural properties such as stiffness.
Title: Modeling the Processing and Testing of High-Temperature Materials听
Faculty:听Iain Boyd, Tim Minton, Al Weimer, Rishi Raj
Funding Partner:听Sandia National Laboratory
Synopsis:听Apply CU modeling tools to analyze CU experimental facilities to assess their relevance to processing and testing of high-temperature materials of interest to Sandia.
Title: Hypersonic flow control by a phononic subsurface听
Faculty: Mahmoud Hussein, James Brasseur
Funding Partner: Air Force Research Laboratory
Synopsis: Develop a preliminary fluid-structure-interaction (FSI) model incorporating a phononic subsurface designed for boundary layer control under hypersonic flow conditions
Title: Three Dimensional Shape Optimization of Entry Vehicles
Faculty: Iain Boyd, Kurt Maute
乐播传媒: Michele Anderson,听Sam Gates,听David Dang
Funding Partner: NASA Ames Research Center
Synopsis: Optimize heat shield geometry accounting for shape change due to ablation along an entry trajectory
Title: Analysis of Surface Chemistry of Ceramic-Metal Composites in Hypersonic Flow
Faculty: Iain Boyd, Al Weimer
乐播传媒: James Nichols
Funding Partner: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Synopsis: Analyze transpiration cooling for hypersonic leading edges based on ceramic-metal composites.
Title:听Plasma Fueled Engines听听
Faculty:听Iain Boyd, John Evans
乐播传媒:听Thomas Kava
Funding Partner:听Lockheed Martin
Synopsis:听Develop physical and numerical models for analysis of plasma fueled engines with application to high altitude hypersonic vehicle propulsion.听