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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. Thermal models are based on a wide range of geometrical primitives, which are selected within the tool or imported and simplified from a CAD file. The underlying simulation engine reproduces the orbital environment and the thermal solution.
Over the course of 2024, as part of the ESA BIC Madrid incubation program, our team has compared the results computed by our simulation engine with other tools of varying purpose. Intially, we have assessed the Radian routines that compute direct radiative heatfluxes in orbits around the Earth against ARTIFIS and TOPIC, two well-tested legacy tools provided by the European Space Agency. In the second stage, we assessed the outcome of complete thermal analyses provided by Orora Technologies and performed in ESATAN-TMS, a robust and widely adopted commercial solution. These activities have counted with the support and guidance from the Thermal Analysis and Vertification Section of the European Space Agency.
Furthermore, several new features have been included both in the user interface and the simulation engine (e.g. additional parameters and setting proxies for scenarios, wider configurability of geometries and cutouts).
