This theme brings together closely related scientific activities: propulsion for space vehicles and the flight of supersonic spacecraft in planetary atmospheres.
Plasma space propulsion
- Thruster physics
- Magnetized plasma sources
- Laser diagnostics
- Engineering and test means PIVOINE-2G
Thinner flows for atmospheric re-entries
- Flow control by plasma and MHD actuators
- Experimental study of thermal imbalance and heat transfer
- Development of analysis tools
- Experimental research around CubeSats
Flow control in propellant nozzles
- Vectorization by secondary injection
- Transition control in double-curved nozzles
Numerical simulations
- Extension of the WENO code to thermodynamic out-of-equilibrium flows
- Control of the laminar-turbulent transition in hypersonicity
