the heat shield of a space vehicle, which melts or wears away during re-entry into the earth's atmosphere
Word origin
C20: from ablation
Examples of 'ablator' in a sentence
ablator
Symcaps replace the cryogenic fuel layer with an equivalent ablator mass and can be similarly diagnosed.
Kyrala G.A., Bradley D.K., Callahan D.A., Dixit S.N., Edwards M.J., Glenn S.M., GlenzerS.H., Izumi N., Jones O.S., Kline J.L., Landen O.L., Ma T., Milovich J.L., MeezanN.B., Spears B.K., Town R.P.J., Weber S., Benedetti R., Döppner T., Ralph J., KilkennyJ. 2013, 'Reproducibility of hohlraum-driven implosion symmetry on the National Ignition Facility',EPJ Web of Conferenceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135902010. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Mid-mode mix was included by directly modeling the ablator and ice surface perturbations up to mode 60.
Jones O., Callahan D., Cerjan C., Clark D., Edwards M.J., Glenzer S., Marinak M.,Meezan N., Milovich J., Olson R., Patel M., Robey H., Sepke S., Spears B., SpringerP., Weber S., Wilson D. 2013, 'Towards an integrated model of the NIC layered implosions', EPJ Web of Conferenceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135902009. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This simulation contains a severely rough ablator perturbation and provides diagnostics signatures of capsule failure due to excessive instability growth.
Marinak M.M., Kerbel G.D., Koning J.M., Patel M.V., Sepke S.M., McKinley M.S., O'BrienM.J., Procassini R.J., Munro D. 2013, 'Advances in HYDRA and its applications to simulations of inertial confinement fusiontargets', EPJ Web of Conferenceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135906001. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)