FWO-SB-Beurs: Development of an Ablation Model for Rarefield Flows with application to meteor entry Vrije Universiteit Brussel
It has been estimated that about 50 tonnes of small meteoroids enter the Earth’s atmosphere every day. In their rush to the ground, these bodies, from 1 m size to micron-size grains, intersect the atmosphere with velocities up to 72 km/s. As the meteoroid interacts with the atmosphere, its surface temperature can reach several thousands of Kelvin causing the ablation, i.e. melting and evaporation, of the material. Due to their small size and the ...