Abstract: A methodology has been established aiming to design a lightweight thermal protection system (TPS), using advanced lightweight ablative materials developed at the NASA Ames Research Center. An explicit finitedifference ...

Abstract: Several artificial roughness (ribs) configurations have been used in flat plate solar air heaters (SAH) in recent years to improve their overall performance. In the present work, energy and exergy analyses of rectangular ...

Abstract: The understanding of strain rate-dependent mechanical properties of the skin is important for accurate prediction of its biomechanics under different loading conditions. This study investigated the effect of strain rate, ...