Integrating Data-Driven and Physics-Based Models for Plume-Surface Interaction Predictions - NASA

ESI23 Villafane Quadchart Laura VillafaneUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rocket engine exhaust during lunar landings can blow away a large amount of lunar regolith causing damage to nearby hardware and the landing spacecraft itself. The complex physics governing this behavior is not well understood making it hard to predict and mitigate its effects. Professor Villafane’s […]