Thermal Protection System Simulation for Hardware-in-the-Loop

Corvid Technologies, LLC (Corvid) and Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) propose developing a framework on a modern software architecture utilizing high fidelity, state-of-the-art modeling tools to provide an accurate, but efficient, prediction of the ablating TPS material response in real-time. Three different TPS modeling approaches will be evaluated during Phase I in terms of accuracy, simplicity, robustness and computational speed in order to select the best option to be deployed in a real-time Navy computational platform. The framework will be modular and flexible to continue expanding the capability and be informed by additional experimental data-sets as they become available. Finally, Corvid and Georgia Tech will develop a preliminary test plan for the TPS material(s) chosen by the US Navy.