Launching powerful space vehicles like the next-generation Space Launch System (SLS) creates extreme pressure waves that could damage the vehicle and the launch environment at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC). To ensure mission safety, the Ignition Overpressure Protection and Sound Suppression (IOP/SS) water deluge system suppresses the strong acoustic waves by delivering almost a half-million gallons of water to the mobile launcher and flame deflector. To better understand the effectiveness of this system at different operating conditions, the Launch Ascent and Vehicle Analysis (LAVA) code, developed at NASA’s Ames Research Center, is currently being modified and extended to incorporate the complex physics needed to model the IOP/SS system.


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    Title :

    Towards Multiphysics Prediction Capability for the KSC Launch Environment


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    Conference:

    International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC19) ; 2019 ; Denver, CO, United States


    Publication date :

    2019-11-17


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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