We will take on these tasks by analyzing three future NASA missions:
Dragonfly
Mission: Land a large rotorcraft on the surface of Titan (a moon of Saturn).
ACCESS Goal: Predict the radiation heating to the vehicle and reduce the associated uncertainty through high-fidelity computational modeling and experiments.
Mars Human Lander
Mission: Land humans on the surface of Mars.
ACCESS Goal: Use the Integrated Simulation Framework with all relevant models for flow, materials, and structures, with uncertainty quantified, to predict the reliability of the Thermal Protection System .
Earth Entry Vehicle
Mission: Return samples from the surface of Mars to Earth for detailed study.
ACCESS Goal: Exercise all capabilities of the Integrated Simulation Framework to determine the reliability of the vehicle as it returns to Earth from Mars at very high speed.