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  1. In-Situ Nanoscale Ablation

    Article • July 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  2. Overview of the Hypersonic Test Flight KREPE-2

    Article • July 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin, Logan Craig, Bruno Tacchi

  3. Pyrolysis Gas Energy Transport in Ablative Material

    Article • July 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Aleksander Zibitsker, Professor Alexandre Martin

  4. Microscale Thermal–Structural Modeling for Carbon Fibers Subjected to a Hypersonic Boundary Layer

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, May 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  5. Development of two-temperature model in unified solver

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin, Raghava S. C. Davuluri

  6. Coupled Simulation of Material Response using Equilibrium and Finite-Rate Ablation Models

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin, Aleksander Zibitsker

  7. Simulation of porous carbon preform ablation in a chemically reacting environment

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    RUI FU, Professor Alexandre Martin, Aleksander Zibitsker

  8. Analysis of arc-jet sample spallation products

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  9. Utilizing a retrospective cost adaptation control (RCAC) algorithm to achieve data-driven, adaptive, real-time (DART) precision meteorological forecasts

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    RUI FU, Professor Alexandre Martin

  10. Modeling spallation of carbon materials in hypersonic flows

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  11. Fully Coupled Material Response and Internal Radiative Heat Transfer for Three-Dimensional Heat Shield Modeling

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, June 2023, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin, Raghava S. C. Davuluri

  12. Numerical Investigation of Film Coefficient Approximation for Chemically Reacting Boundary-Layer Flows

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, April 2023, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  13. Novel Engineering Methodology for Decoupled Aerothermal Analysis of Hypersonic Atmospheric Entry Flows

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, February 2023, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  14. Simulation of Graphite Ablation using an Overset Near Body Solver on an Adaptive Block-Structured Cartesian Off-Body Grid

    Article • June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin, Aleksander Zibitsker

  15. Study of a Two-Dimensional Shape Change of Blunt-Body Geometries at Hypersonic Conditions Using Fully Coupled Simulation

    Article • June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Aleksander Zibitsker, Professor Alexandre Martin

  16. Modeling of spalled particles for arc-jet test planning

    Article • June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin, Raghava S. C. Davuluri

  17. Radiative conductivity estimation using direct approach for fibrous materials

    Article • June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  18. A Kinetic Monte Carlo based analysis of graphite oxidation with realistic defect distributions

    Article • June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  19. Semi-Empirical 1D Material Response Modeling Using Inverse Methods

    Article • June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  20. Kentucky Re-Entry Universal Payload System (KRUPS): Overview of flight test via high-altitude balloon

    Article • June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  21. A Data-Driven Approach For Real-Time Estimation of Material Uncertainty

    Article • June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin, RUI FU

  22. Stochastic mechanical modeling of MMOD impact-inspired cylindrical cavities in Duocel foam

    Article • June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  23. Radiative Transmission and Absorption Within the Thermal Protection System of Atmospheric Entry Spacecraft

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, September 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  24. Geometric Effects on Charring Ablator: Modeling the Full-Scale Stardust Heat Shield

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    RUI FU, Professor Alexandre Martin

  25. Stochastic Modeling of Elastic Behavior of Fibrous Ablators

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Sean McDaniel, Professor Alexandre Martin

  26. Development of Stochastic Model for Fibrous Ablators

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Sean McDaniel, RUI FU, Professor Alexandre Martin

  27. Fluid Behavior in Stochastic Porous Structures

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  28. Surface Oxidation of Carbon/Carbon Composites in Hypersonic Environments

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    RUI FU, Professor Alexandre Martin, Raghava S. C. Davuluri

  29. Numerical reconstruction of spalled particle trajectories in an arc-jet environment

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Raghava S. C. Davuluri, Professor Alexandre Martin

  30. Crack Modeling in Charring Ablation Materials

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    RUI FU, Professor Alexandre Martin

  31. An Immersed Boundary Method for Hypersonic Viscous Flows

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  32. Permeability Calculation of a Fibrous Thermal Insulator Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, November 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  33. Spallation particle size analysis resulting from arc-jet experiments

    Article • June 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  34. Micro-Scale Thermal-Structural Modeling for Carbon Fibers

    Article • June 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    RUI FU, Professor Alexandre Martin

  35. Radiative transmission and absorption within the ablative heat shield of hypersonic vehicles

    Article • June 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  36. Numerical Simulation of an Arc Jet Test Section

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, April 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  37. Thermal Expansion for Charring Ablative Materials

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, January 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin, RUI FU

  38. Numerical Investigation of Nonlinear Structural Responses in Ablation Problem

    Article • June 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    RUI FU, Professor Alexandre Martin, Sean McDaniel

  39. Modeling thin layers of materials in the Kentucky Aerodynamic Thermal Solver (KATS)

    Article • June 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin, RUI FU

  40. Semi-Empirical Method for Measuring Thermal Conductivity of Fibrous Insulation Materials

    Article • June 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  41. Sensitivity Analysis in Material Response for Ablation Problem

    Article • June 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    RUI FU, Professor Alexandre Martin

  42. Modeling FiberForm Oxidation in a Flow Tube using a Universal Solver

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  43. Numerical analysis of time accuracy of a primitive variable-based formulation of the conservative form of the governing equations for compressible flows

    Article • International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  44. Calibration and Uncertainty Quantification of VISTA Ablator Material Database Using Bayesian Inference

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, November 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  45. Experimental analysis of spallation particle trajectories in an arc-jet environment

    Article • Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, May 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  46. Retrospective cost adaptive Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes k – ω model for data-driven unsteady turbulent simulations

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, March 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  47. An introduction to the derivation of surface balance equations without the excruciating pain

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, December 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  48. Thermomechanical Coupling for Charring Ablators

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, October 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin, RUI FU

  49. Modeling Gasification of Carbon Fiber Preform in Oxygen Rich Environments

    Article • June 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  50. Development Of An Open-Source Avcoat Material Database, VISTA

    Article • June 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    RUI FU, Professor Alexandre Martin

  51. Development of a Universal Solver and Its Application to Ablation Problems

    Article • June 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  52. A data-driven adaptive Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes k − ω model for turbulent flow

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, May 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  53. Thermodynamic properties of carbon-phenolic gas mixtures

    Article • Aerospace Science and Technology, March 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandre Martin, Assistant Professor Jason Rabinovitch

  54. Development of a three-dimensional, unstructured material response design tool

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  55. Two-way strongly coupled thermo-mechanical solver for ablation problems

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    RUI FU, Professor Alexandre Martin

  56. Experimental measurements of the permeability of fibrous carbon at high-temperature

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, October 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  57. A not-so-harmless experiment in predatory open access publishing

    Article • Learned Publishing, September 2016, Wiley

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  58. Application of A New Thermal-Mechanical Coupling Solver for Ablation

    Article • June 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin, RUI FU

  59. Characterization of Ablation Product Radiation Signatures of PICA and FiberForm

    Article • June 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Paul M Danehy, Professor Alexandre Martin

  60. Numerical and experimental analysis of spallation phenomena

    Article • CEAS Space Journal, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Raghava S. C. Davuluri, Professor Alexandre Martin

  61. Effects of Water Phase Change on the Material Response of Low-Density Carbon-Phenolic Ablators

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, April 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin, Francesco Panerai

  62. Evaluation of the anisotropic radiative conductivity of a low-density carbon fiber material from realistic microscale imaging

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, April 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  63. Effect of spalled particles thermal degradation on a hypersonic flow field environment

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Raghava S. C. Davuluri, Professor Alexandre Martin

  64. Turbulence Simulation Using Direct Gradient Adaptive k-ω Model

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  65. Characterization of Candidate Materials for Remote Recession Measurements of Ablative Heat Shield Materials

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr Paul M Danehy, Professor Alexandre Martin, Francesco Panerai

  66. Kentucky Re-entry Universal Payload System

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  67. Numerical Study of Spallation Phenomenon in an Arc-Jet Environment

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Raghava S. C. Davuluri, Professor Alexandre Martin

  68. Modeling the oxidation of low-density carbon fiber material based on micro-tomography

    Article • Carbon, January 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  69. Modeling of Heat Transfer Attenuation by Ablative Gases During the Stardust Reentry

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, July 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Iain Boyd, Professor Alexandre Martin

  70. Numerical Investigation of Thermal Response Using Orthotropic Charring Ablative Material

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, July 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  71. Effects of Water Presence on Low Temperature Phenomenon in Porous TPS Materials

    Article • June 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  72. Comparisons of PICA In-depth Material Performance and Ablator Response Modeling from MEDLI Arc Jet Tests

    Article • June 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  73. Kinetic Rates for Gas-Phase Chemistry of Phenolic-Based Carbon Ablator in Atmospheric Air

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, April 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Iain Boyd, Professor Alexandre Martin

  74. Three dimensional radiative heat transfer model for the evaluation of the anisotropic effective conductivity of fibrous materials

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, April 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  75. Numerical Investigation of Geometric Effects of Stardust Return Capsule Heat Shield

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  76. Strongly Coupled Computation of Material Response and Nonequilibrium Flow for Hypersonic Ablation

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Iain Boyd, Professor Alexandre Martin

  77. Numerical study of iso-Q sample geometric effects on charring ablative materials

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  78. Comparison of Transport Properties Models for Flowfield Simulations of Ablative Heat Shields

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, October 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Iain Boyd, Professor Alexandre Martin, Hicham Alkandry

  79. Multidimensional Modeling of Pyrolysis Gas Transport Inside Charring Ablative Materials

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, October 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  80. Numerical Investigation of Pyrolysis Gas Blowing Pattern and Thermal Response using Orthotropic Charring Ablative Material

    Article • June 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  81. Numerical study of spallation phenomenon in an arc-jet environment

    Article • June 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Raghava S. C. Davuluri, Professor Alexandre Martin

  82. Flow-Tube Oxidation Experiments on the Carbon Preform of a Phenolic-Impregnated Carbon Ablator

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, April 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin, Francesco Panerai

  83. Investigation of the scaling of roughness and blowing effects on turbulent channel flow

    Article • Experiments in Fluids, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  84. Numerical and experimental study of carbon fiber oxidation

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin, Francesco Panerai

  85. Simulation of Flow-tube Oxidation on the Carbon Preform of PICA

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  86. Numerical Prediction of Hypersonic Flowfields Including Effects of Electron Translational Nonequilibrium

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, October 2013, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  87. Volume averaged modeling of the oxidation of porous carbon fiber material

    Article • June 2013, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  88. Multi-dimensional modeling of charring ablators

    Article • June 2013, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  89. Flow-tube Oxidation Experiments on the Carbon Preform of PICA

    Article • June 2013, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  90. Modeling of chemical nonequilibrium effects in a charring ablator

    Article • January 2013, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  91. Investigation of Turbulent Structure Modification by Momentum Injection Into Turbulent Flow Over a Rough Surface

    Article • January 2013, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  92. Comparison of Models for Mixture Transport Properties for Numerical Simulations of Ablative Heat-Shields

    Article • January 2013, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  93. Hypersonic Flow and Radiation Analysis of the Automated Transfer Vehicle Jules Verne

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, January 2013, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  94. Multi-Dimensional Modeling of Charring Ablator

    Article • June 2012, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  95. High performance modeling of atmospheric re-entry vehicles

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, February 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  96. Modeling of heat transfer attenuation by ablative gases during the Stardust re-entry

    Article • January 2012, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  97. Modeling Ablation of Charring Heat Shield Materials for Non-continuum Hypersonic Flow

    Article • January 2012, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  98. Effect of Applied Magnetic Field on Shock Boundary Layer Interaction

    Article • January 2012, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  99. Numerical modeling of the CN spectral emission of the Stardust re-entry vehicle

    Article • June 2011, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  100. Investigation of the Effects of Electron Translational Nonequilibrium on Numerical Predictions of Hypersonic Flow Fields

    Article • June 2011, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  101. CFD Implementation of a novel carbon-phenolic-in-air chemistry model for atmospheric re-entry

    Article • January 2011, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  102. Mesh Tailoring for Strongly Coupled Computation of Ablative Material in Nonequilibrium Hypersonic Flow

    Article • June 2010, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  103. Assessment of Carbon-Phenolic-in-Air Chemistry Models for Atmospheric Reentry

    Article • June 2010, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  104. Variant of the Thomas Algorithm for opposite-bordered tridiagonal systems of equations

    Article • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, January 2010, Wiley

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  105. Non-Darcian Behavior of Pyrolysis Gas in a Thermal Protection System

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, January 2010, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  106. Simulation of Pyrolysis Gas Within a Thermal Protection System

    Article • June 2008, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  107. Numerical solution of axisymmetric multi-species compressible gas flow: towards improved circuit breaker simulation

    Article • International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, May 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  108. Transient Ablation Regime in Circuit Breakers

    Article • Plasma Science and Technology, December 2007, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  109. Simulation of arc-electrode interaction using sheath modelling in SF6 circuit-breakers

    Article • Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, April 2002, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Alexandre Martin

  110. Simulation of Inviscid Multi-Species Plasma Flow

    Article • January 2002, ASME International

    Professor Alexandre Martin