In this paper, the DSC and TGA for phenol and silica/phenolic composite were carried out by increasing temperature up to 950℃ with variable heating rate, to figure out basic thermal and pyrolysis characteristics of the composite. Also, the aim was to obtain the activation energy and the frequency factor which are the main parameters of the Arrhenius equation based on the Kissinger theory. The activation energy and frequency factor were used for the ablation model as material property. To confirm surface temperature distribution and recession of missiles, the CFD analysis using ANSYS Fluent R18.2 was performed to examine the thermal fluid characteristics of the hypersonic flight environment. Subsequently, the analysis results were applied as boundary conditions to a 2D axisymmetric pyrolysis and ablation model. Finally, pyrolysis and ablation analysis were performed using the ablation analysis code SAMCEF AMARYLLIS V.17, which uses the specific ablation module based on finite element code by applying carbon/phenolic and cork materials up to t = 10 s.

A chemical ablation analysis of hypersonic missile for thermal protection design was performed using SAMCEF AMARYLLIS V.17, the specific ablation module of commercial software based on a finite element code. The pyrolysis and surface recession models based on the effects of mass loss, pore gas diffusion, and endothermic reaction energy were applied for non-linearity of material and boundary. The numerical studies were carried out to confirm the tendency of the pyrolysis and chemical ablation of theoretical ablative composite for open testing (TACOT) with a chemical composition similar to charring carbon/phenolic composites. The frequency of variation in surface recession, temperature, density and gas mass flux was reviewed to determine the characteristics of multiple decomposition reactions and oxidation via pyrolysis of gas species.