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Panerai, Francesco Czop, Matthew Mark 2021-09-17T01:13:35Z 2021-09-17T01:13:35Z 2021-04-30 2021-05 The following thesis discusses the conceptual design of the Plasmatron One wind tunnel at the Center for Hypersonics and Entry Systems Studies (CHESS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). The centerpiece of the facility is an Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) torch capable of recreating flow conditions similar to what reentering spacecraft experience when passing through the atmosphere. The purpose of this facility is to experimentally study the physics of plasma flows, their interactions with a downstream sample of thermal protection material, and the response of the material as it is exposed to high reactive, high-temperature flow. The data collected from the experiments conducted at the facility will be used to verify computer models as well as material performance characteristics. This thesis describes the preliminary design process and its respective considerations as well as the goals of the facility and how they were achieved through various design features. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2021-09-16 without embargo terms The student, Matthew Czop, accepted the attached license on 2021-04-30 at 10:18. The student, Matthew Czop, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2021-04-30 at 10:37. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2021-04-30 at 13:20. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16622 on 2021-09-16 at 16:49:45 Made available in DSpace on 2021-09-17T01:13:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 CZOP-THESIS-2021.pdf: 1655291 bytes, checksum: 6177136c365ffd53e8e2bd7cb4736f0f (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4209 bytes, checksum: 4cf299b4123caa3c53805b0c785a64c2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2021-04-30 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/110605 en Copyright 2021 Matthew Czop Atmospheric Re-entry Inductively Coupled Plasma Thermal Protection System Material Testing Preliminary design of a high enthalpy plasma tunnel for atmospheric re-entry research text Thesis Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S.