{"id":544580,"date":"2018-11-07T05:52:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T09:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/search.jsp?R=20180007013"},"modified":"2018-11-07T05:52:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T09:52:41","slug":"full-scale-msl-heatshield-material-response-using-dsmc-and-cfd-to-compute-the-aerothermal-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=544580","title":{"rendered":"Full-Scale MSL Heatshield Material Response Using DSMC and CFD to Compute the Aerothermal Environments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: During Mars atmospheric entry, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) was protected by a 4.5 meters diameter ablative heatshield assembled in 113 tiles [1]. The heatshield was made of NASA&#8217;s flagship ablative material, the Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator (PICA) [2]. Prior work [3] compared the traditional one-dimensional and three-dimensional material response models at different locations in the heatshield. It was observed that the flow was basically one-dimensional in the nose and flank regi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: During Mars atmospheric entry, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) was protected by a 4.5 meters diameter ablative heatshield assembled in 113 tiles [1]. The heatshield was made of NASA&#8217;s flagship ablative material, the Phenolic Impregnated Car&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544581,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544580\/revisions\/544581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}