Experiments and testing facilities

NASA EAST facility simulation

First unsteady simulation of the complex thermochemical nonequilibrium plasma flow (with shock speed up to 10 Km/s) inside the NASA Electric Arc Shock Tube (EAST) facility with COOLFluiD aerothermodynamic solver and the PLATO thermochemical library (by Alessandro Munafo' at UIUC).

WATCH FULL VIDEO here, courtesy of Khalil Bensassi and NAS team @NASA Ames.

Heat flux on double cone (NATO RTO AVT 136): computations vs experiments

Heat flux on double cone (NATO RTO AVT 136): computations vs experiments by A. Lani. Details on the solver can be found in the CiCP article here. More results in JPAS [here] (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376042111001023).

[WATCH VIDEO: Hypersonic air flow establishment during experiment at UIUC with total enthalpy 2MJ/Kg over double wedge (NATO STO AVT 205) by O. Diaz Lopez.] (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andrealani/COOLFluiD/master/videos/FineMesh_time_animation_PG_air.mp4)

Supersonic jet in VKI Inductively Coupled Plasmatron facility Expanding flow inside VKI Inductively Coupled Plasmatron facility(ICP-LTE model)

Supersonic plasma jet inside VKI Inductively Coupled Plasmatron: image of experiment (top) and simulated flow inside the whole facility with ICP-LTE model (bottom) by V. Van der Haegen.

The COOLFluiD team is involved and open to new collaborations in Horizon2020, ESA and other research projects dealing with complex multi-disciplinary problems and computational challenges.

Training sessions and consulting services can also be provided on demand.

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