Characterisation of Materials under Hyperthermal Conditions (A03)

• Subject Area: Fluid Mechanics
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 516238647

A novel, experimentally well characterized ground test facility will be realised in this project based on a plasma wind tunnel adapted with a skimmer. The development will be accompanied by detailed simulations with the DSMC code PICLas. The associated methodology for combined experimental and numerical investigations of gas-surface interactions will be established and evaluated. This will particularly allow for an experimental validation of physical models developed and used in the numerical tools in this and other projects.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1667: Advancing Technologies of Very Low Altitude Satellites (ATLAS)
• Applicant Institution: Universität Stuttgart
• Project Heads: Professor Dr.-Ing. Stefanos Fasoulas; Professor Dr.-Ing. Georg Herdrich