Speaker
Description
The Central Institute of Engineering, Electronics and Analytics, Engineering and Technology (ZEA-1) of the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (FZJ) develops and manufactures scientific-technical devices, systems and processes, that are not available on the market, with and for our scientific partners. The SHIPAS measuring device, an optical instrument for observing the mesosphere, is currently developed at the institute as a first project that has to fulfil the requirements for space missions.
In this presentation we depict our approach for thermal modelling using the finite element software ANSYS as simulation tool so the model might also be used in subsequent thermo-structural and STOP-analyses. Details of the finite element model and of the handling of the heat and radiation boundary conditions are introduced with a special emphasises to the consideration of orbit dependent data. We present how the model is used to derive a representative lumped model and we will discuss advantages and disadvantages of the methods used. Moreover, we give ideas in which way our approach might be beneficially altered for future projects.
