10–12 Oct 2023
ESA/ESTEC
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

Radian: CAD importing and other improvements for thermal analysis software

12 Oct 2023, 10:00
30m
Newton

Newton

thermal analysis and software tools Thermal Analysis

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David Criado

Description

Radian is a thermal analysis software conceived to provide agility to engineers, both at modelling and computing processes. Our software is accessible through a regular web browser and counts on a scalable network of computing resources in the cloud. Thermal analyses are supported by the Databank, a catalogue of satellite components and other reusable entities. The underlying simulation engine reproduces the orbital environment and the thermal solution.

Over the course of 2023, our team has developed a novel feature that allows importing CAD files into our software and turning them into thermal models. Smart importing consists of a series of routines that analyse the morphology and hierarchy of the CAD file, in order to guide the user through the process of simplifying and optimising the contents of the CAD model.

In addition, several new features have been included both in the user interface and the simulation engine, ranging from new ways of visualising data, to faster and more powerful computing tasks.

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