Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170103191

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP170103191

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Turbulent heat transfer during Mars Venus and Earth atmospheric entry. This project aims to design better heat shields for spacecraft. Designing heat shields for re-entry vehicles needs good models to predict aerodynamic heating. Conventional wind tunnels cannot measure aerodynamic heating in ground tests in the region of peak heating, making design uncertain and risky. This project will use a free-piston-driven expansion tunnel that can produce flows fast and dense enough to measure heating for turbulent boundary layers at the highest speeds encountered during re-entry. This should allow scientists to test and develop theoretical and numerical models of heating and so improve spacecraft design.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2017

End Date: 31-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $405,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Aerospace Engineering | Hypersonic Propulsion and Hypersonic Aerodynamics | Satellite, Space Vehicle and Missile Design and Testing

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Space Transport |

Other Keywords

Aerospace Engineering | Hypersonic Propulsion and Hypersonic Aerodynamics | Satellite, Space Vehicle and Missile Design and Testing | Space Transport

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