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ELORET has the capability to model a wide variety of high energy, high temperature flows. We also offer vast experience in the design and testing of devices that produce or operate in a high energy flow environment. The ELORET staff has contributed significantly to numerous high energy fluid dynamics projects, including:

• NASA/Ames 16-inch Shock Tunnel
• GASL HYPULSE Expansion Tube
• NASA/Ames Arcjet Facilities
• Mars MESUR Probe
• NASA AFE Probe
• University of Washington Ram Accelerator
• ISL Ballistic Range experiments
• AIMHYE Scramjet Propulsion testing

Expertise and help are available in the following:

Flow Problems and Applications

• rockets and reusable launch vehicles
• re-entry flows and heat shield erosion/sizing
• scramjet and detonation wave engines
• detonations and explosives; high explosive guns
• MHD plasmas
• nozzle design
• performance analysis
• jet/plume interaction and hard-body effects
• solid and liquid propellant systems analysis, alternate propulsion concepts
• base-heating predictions
• strong shock waves
• chemical reactions, dissociation, ionization, radiation
• coupled fluid/wall boundary heat transfer

Computational Fluid Dynamics

• thermochemical nonequilibrium simulations w/multi-temperature gas models
• coupled vibration-dissociation modeling
• rates of rotational and vibrational excitation
• thermochemistry models for DSMC computations of rarefied flows
• ionization, radiation
• surface catalysis
• low density effects

Facilities/Experiment Design and Analysis

• shock tubes and tunnels, expansion tubes
• arc jets
• ram accelerators
• nozzles
• ballistic ranges, light gas guns
• instrumentation and visualization techniques