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Experimental And Numerical Study Of Carbon Fiber Oxidation, Francesco Panerai, Nagi N. Mansour, Jean Lachaud, Alexandre Martin
Experimental And Numerical Study Of Carbon Fiber Oxidation, Francesco Panerai, Nagi N. Mansour, Jean Lachaud, Alexandre Martin
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The oxidation at high Knudsen number of FiberForm® , the matrix material of NASA's Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator, is investigated both experimentally and numerically. The experimental setup consists of a quartz tube through a clamshell heater. Mass loss and recession of carbon preform samples are measured at temperatures between 700 and 1300 K and pressures around 2000 Pa. A volume average fiber-scale oxidation model is used to model the setup and extract the effective reactivity of the material. New values for carbon fiber reactivity are suggested and discussed.