Modeling the heat and mass transfer in the pores of the thermal protection carbon-carbon frame during the gas-phase deposition of silicon carbide

Abstract

This paper is dedicated to the numerical simulation of the gas-phase deposition into the porous carbon-carbon frame for the gradient thermal protection of reentry vehicles. The paper presents the specifics of creating the representative volume elements of the porous carbon-carbon frames based on the microstructure data from the computed tomography scanner, electronic scanning microscope and porosimetry results. The finite-element models of the representative volume elements are created in order to obtain the net independent solution, including the special finite elements at the phase interfaces. The finite-element and finite-volume method was used for calculation, implemented in MSC.Digimat and ANSYS software packages. The effect of the reagent parameters on the gas-phase deposition process, uniformity and rate of silicon carbide deposition was simulated parametrically, and the results are presented.