Porous-material analysis toolbox based on openfoam and applications. Lachaud, J. & Mansour, N., N. Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 28(2):191-202, 2014.
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The Porous-material Analysis Toolbox based on OpenFOAM is a fully portable OpenFOAM library. It isimplemented to test innovative multiscale physics-based models for reacting porous materials that undergo recession.Current developments are focused on ablative materials. The ablative material response module implemented in the Porous-material Analysis Toolbox relies on an original high-fidelity ablation model. The governing equations are volume-averaged forms of the conservation equations for gas mass, gas species, solid mass, gas momentum, and total energy. It may also simply be used as a state-of-the-art ablation model when the right model options are chosen. As applications, three physical analyses are presented: 1) volume-averaged study of the oxidation of a carbon-fiber preform under dry air, 2) three-dimensional analysis of the pyrolysis gas flow in a porous ablative material sample facing an arcjet, and 3) comparison of a state-of-the-art and a high-fidelity model for the thermal and chemical response of a carbon/phenolic ablative material. © 2013 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.

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