Technical Paper
An empirical approach to evaluating various compositions and configuration of high temperature heat shields
1997-12-31
973123
Qualitative evaluation of over 100 heat shields was completed with the use of K-Flow 1.0, a Windows based computer program developed by Thermal Ceramics. These evaluations were designed to eliminated some of the cost incurred in developing and testing new heat shield configurations by narrowing the amount of actual lab testing required, K-Flow 1.0 offers a logical focused starting point while allowing for inexpensive investigation into other thermal containment alternatives. The empirical evaluation of various heat shield characteristics and how they relate to differential temperature provided several qualitative conclusions. The expected increased in differential temperature( a lower cold face temperature for a given hot face) was seen for increasing thickness and density.
