Hot-STARSHIP: Hot-STructure and Ablative Reaction SHIeld Program - a Python software for calculating heat transfer in spacecraft thermal protection systems

This Python program calculates the thermal response of ablative and non-ablative rocket or spacecraft heat shields. The code is a 1D finite volume method.

Some features include:

• ablative, non-ablative or corrugated sandwich materials
• temperature-dependent properties
• integration of generation of chemistry data by use of Mutation++
• integrated plotting functions
• recovery enthalpy or heat flux boundary conditions
• only adiabatic back face boundary condition (so far)