Teaching
Spacecraft Thermal Management Cornell University, Prof. Sobhani
This course overviews the strategies, technologies and governing scientific principles applied to control and protect spacecraft against extreme heating or cooling.
Sample of previous final project topics:
Novel, Highly Ablative Heat Shields for In-situ Resource Utilization
Mars Sample Return: Heat shield and trajectory design
Minimizing Thermal Protection System Heat Sheild Mass
Thermal Protection System for Entry to Venus Atmosphere
Earth Reentry of Orbital Manufacturing Capsule
Combustion Processes
Cornell University, Prof. Sobhani
Topics: Thermochemistry, kinetics, heat and mass transport processes, premixed and non-premixed laminar flames, simulating one-dimensional combustion processes in Cantera.
Sample of previous final project topics:
Cantera simulation of the non-premixed DLR-A flame
Combustion for multimode microsatellite propulsion
Microrobots powered by soft combustion actuators
Numerical simulation of laminar premixed flames comparing Fluent and Cantera
Enabling miniature arrays of actuators for haptics: Cantera modeling of soft combustion in Cantera