A DSMC Surface Chemistry Model for Carbon-Based Ablators

Borner, A.; Swaminathan-Gopalan, K.; Stephani, K.; Mansour, N. N.

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A DSMC Surface Chemistry Model for Carbon-Based Ablators

Borner, A.·Swaminathan-Gopalan, K.·Stephani, K.·Mansour, N. N.

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A detailed molecular surface chemistry model for the DSMC (Direct Simulation Monte Carlo) method is proposed and implemented into the SPARTA (Stochastic PArallel Rarefied-gas Time-accurate Analyzer) DSMC solver. Molchanova et al. constructed a molecular model for surface recombination in DSMC that includes different surface processes (adsorption, desoprtion, Eley-Rideal and Langmuir-Hinshelwood). All surface processes can be divided into two groups: surface mechanisms, which involve only the particle adsorbed by the surface (desorption and Langmuir-Hinshelwood), and impact mechanisms, which also involve gas-phase particles (adsorption, Eley-Rideal). Using a similar approach, the 14-reaction kinetic model of oxygen-carbon interaction suggested by Zhlukhtov and Abe, as well as more recent models by Alba et al., Poovathinghal et al., and a new model developed in the scope of this work, are implemented in SPARTA. The computational results for the different oxidation models are compared with experimental results from Murray et al. (oxidation of a vitreous carbon surface due to a hyperthermal beam of O and O2), with a particular focus on fluxes, angular and Time-Of-Flight distributions of scattered particles.

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Borner, A., Swaminathan-Gopalan, K., Stephani, K., Mansour, N. N.. 2016-07-14. A DSMC Surface Chemistry Model for Carbon-Based Ablators. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20190000210

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