Publication Date:
2019-06-27
Description:
Research has been conducted by means of laboratory experiments to enhance understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of heterogeneous and homogeneous chemical reactions taking place during ablative processes that accompany the reentry or manned space vehicles into planetary atmospheres. Fundamental mechanisms of those chemical reactions believed to be important in the thermal degradation of ablative plastic heat shield materials, and the gases evolved, are described.
Keywords:
THERMODYNAMICS AND COMBUSTION
Type:
NASA-CR-114453
Format:
application/pdf