Chair: Jean R. Lachaud, UC Santa Cruz/NASA Ames, USA
2012
Wednesday, February 29th
3:40 PM

Pyrolytic Analysis of a Charring Ablator

Alexandre Bennett, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, UK
David R. Payne, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, UK
Richard Court, Imperial College, UK

3:40 PM

4:05 PM

A Combined Experimental and Mechanistic Modeling Approach to Study Polymer Pyrolysis

Hsi-Wu Wong, Aerodyne Research, Inc.
Linda J. Broadbelt, Northwestern University

4:05 PM

4:30 PM

Study of Mechanical and Thermal Behavior of Polymeric Ablator Using MD

Abhishek Kumar, University of Michigan
Veera Sundararaghavan, University of Michigan

4:30 PM

4:55 PM

Investigation of Pyrolyzing Ablator in an Inductively Coupled Plasma Torch Facility

Douglas G. Fletcher, University of Vermont
J. Uhl, University of Vermont
J. M. Meyers, University of Vermont
W. Owens, University of Vermont
A. Lutz, University of Vermont
M. Dougherty, University of Vermont
S. Smith, University of Vermont

4:55 PM