Soldiers operating in the desert wearing body armor and other heavy clothing cannot adequately dissipate heat Both physical and mental fiincflons are impaired when body core temperature increases. Performance can be enhanced and health risks reduced with the aid of the body core cooling device being developed in this program. The development described here builds on successful demonstrations by Heller et al. at Stanford University, which showed that heat can ...
A three-dimensional thermal analysis method with direct application laser-structural interactions has been developed. This robust, implicit finite-volume technique solves the enthalpic form of the heat conduction equation for laser radiation interacting with three-dimensional aerospace structures. It utilizes finite elements derived from the structural analysis and accommodates arbitrary beam profiles to compute the ablative material response. Computed results for a composite hat-stiffened panel are illustrated. This method has also treated laser-structural ...
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