Contact
Pfaffenwaldring 29
70569 Stuttgart
Deutschland
Office Hours
By appointment
Subject
Atmospheric Entry Technologies
- Experimental characterisation of (structural) material demise behaviour during uncontrolled atmospheric entries (Design for Demise).
- Experimental characterisation of ablative thermal protection system materials.
- Mission analysis and flight experiments for atmospheric re-entry scenarios (controlled and destructive)
Projects:
- Characterisation of Demisable Materials (Prime Contractor: Fluid Gravity Engineering Ltd , ESA Clean Space Initiative, 2014 to 2017)
- Rückkehrtechnologien für hochenergetische Bahnen / Return technologies for highly energetic trajectories (DLR@UniST-Initiative, financed by Helmholtz Association, 2014 to 2017)
- CleanSat BB28: Arcjet Orbit Raising and Deorbit Module (ESA Clean Space Initiative, 2016 bis 2017)
- Re-entry Break-Up Experiment Assessment (Prime Contractor: Fluid Gravity Engineering Ltd., ESA Clean Space Initiative, 2019)
- Extension of the high-fidelity re-entry break-up simulation software based on new measurement types (T711-503GR) (Prime Contractor: Hyperschalltechnologie Göttingen GmbH, ESA Clean Space Initiative, 2019)
- One peer-reviewed article (as of June 2019).
- 34 conference papers in total, 12 of which as main author (as of June 2019).
- (Co-)author of more than fifteen technical reports and technical notes (as of June 2019).
Lectures in the context of the course "Wiedereintrittstechnologie / Atmospheric Entry Technology" (Master course) by PD Dr.-Ing. G. Herdrich during the winter semester:
- Ablative Thermal Protection Systems
- Design for Demise (D4D)
As of June 2019, supervision of 23 Bachelor and Master theses in total under the professorial responsibility of PD Dr.-Ing. Georg Herdrich with the following topics:
- Experimental, analytical and computational characterisation of material behaviours in the context of atmospheric entry manoeuvres (e.g. material demise or ablation behaviour, modelling of ablation phenomena, experimental and inverse determination of material properties)
- Mission and system analyses and studies for re-entry missions (e.g. CAPE, uncontrolled and destructive entry scenarios)
- Design and optimisation of test facilities and measurement techniques for the investigation of various re-entry phenomena (e.g. E-CHAMB, plasma wind tunnel probes, laser-based photogrammetry)
- System studies for electric (Pulsed Plasma Thrusters) and unconventional (fusion-based) space propulsion systems
- Design of flight experiment components and procedures (e.g. for CAPE and its precursor sounding rocket-based mission MIRKA2-RX)
Students that are interested in conducting a Bachelor or Master thesis in the fields of atmospheric entry technology or electric and advanced space propulsion systems are kindly requested to apply to PD Dr.-Ing. Georg Herdrich.
Students that are interested in or already commited to conducting a Bachelor or Master thesis under my supervision will find some useful information and guidelines here:
Information sheet for Bachelor and Master student theses (EN, last updated: 2017-06-12)