MODELING AND IDENTIFICATION OF THE PROCESSES
OF HEAT EXCHANGE IN POROUS MATERIALS
OF THERMAL PROTECTION OF REUSABLE AEROSPACE SYSTEMS

S. V. Reznik,a W. P. P. Fisher,b D. Martines,c 
L. Ya. Paderin,d N. V. Pavlyukevich,e  D. Petit,f  
and P. V. Prosuntsova 

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The features of aerospace systems as transport facilities 
for exploration of near-earth space and high-velocity intercontinental 
transportation have been considered. Problems of complex investigations 
of the processes of heat exchange in porous materials of thermal protection 
of prospective reusable aerospace systems have been formulated.

aN. E. Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 5 2nd 
Baumanskaya Str., Moscow, 105005, Russia; email: sreznik@bmstu.ru; 
bEADS Space Transportation GmbH Group, Bremen, Germany; 
cPSA, Tabernas (Almeria), Spain; dN. E. Zhukovskii 
Central Aerohydrodynamics Institute, Zhukovskii, 140160, Moscow 
Region, Russia; eA. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer 
Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., 
Minsk, 220072, Belarus; fEcole Nationale Superieure 
de Mecanique et d'Aerotechnique, Futuroscope Cedex, France. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 77, No. 3, 
pp. 3-8, May-June, 2004. Original article submitted April 14, 2004.