Description
The space industry is rapidly expanding, and components are getting increasinglysmaller leading to the prominence of cubesats. Cubesats are satellites from about coffee
mug size to cereal box size. The challenges of shortened timeline and smaller budgets for
smaller spacecraft are also their biggest advantages. This benefits educational missions
and industry missions a like but can burden teams to be smaller or have less experience.
Thermal analysis of cubesats is no exception to these burdens which is why this thesis
has been written to provide a guide for conducting the thermal analysis of a cubesat using
the Deployable Optical Receiver Aperture (DORA) mission as an example. Background
on cubesats and their role in the space industry will be examined. The theoretical side of
heat transfer necessary for conducting a thermal analysis will be explored. The DORA
thermal analysis will then be conducted by constructing a thermal model in Thermal
Desktop software from the ground up. Insight to assumptions for model construction to
move accurately yet quickly will be detailed. Lastly, this fast and quick method will be
compared to a standard finite element mesh model to show quality results can be
achieved in significantly less time.
Details
Title
- A Guide to Simplified Thermal Model Construction for Cubesats
Contributors
- Adkins, Matthew Thomas (Author)
- Phelan, Patrick (Thesis advisor)
- Jacobs, Danny (Thesis advisor)
- Wang, Liping (Committee member)
- Bowman, Judd (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2022
Resource Type
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Note
- Partial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2022
- Field of study: Mechanical Engineering