Heat Pipes – Calin Tarau (ACT)
Monday 9:30 am – 11:30 am
This Heat Pipe Short Course by Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT) will provide a broad overview of heat pipes for Spacecraft Thermal Control, including operating principles, limitations, design considerations, applications, and testing.
After discussing the basics, the course will discuss special variants of heat pipes, thermal control with heat pipes, and high temperature heat pipes.
Form Factors, Grey Bodies, and Radiation Conductances- Steve Rickman (NESC/JSC)
Tuesday 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Students are introduced to basic thermal radiation analysis in undergraduate heat transfer courses but little focus in given to techniques employed for thermal radiation analysis in the real world. This theory-based short course provides an introduction to thermal radiation form factors, grey bodies and radiation conductances. Various techniques of form factor calculation are explored and demonstrated. Radiation interchange using, both, monte carlo and radiosity techniques is demonstrated.
MSFC Thermal Testing Lessons Learned – Deborah Hernandez, Mackenzie Byrnes, Heather Grimes, Stephanie Mauro, Elijah Stewart (MSFC)
Wednesday 9:30 am – 11:30 am
MSFC thermal engineers will be presenting lessons learned while preparing and conducting thermal tests. This course will cover practical real-world examples of thermal chamber and vacuum chamber testing from engineering development units to system level testing on flight hardware. Special topics include large scale test preparation, requirement tailoring from parent documents, and cryogenic development testing.
Meshed Lunar Terrain Thermal Model-Building – Will Birmingham (MSFC), Lisa Erikson (JSC), and Will Grier (LARC)
Wednesday 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
This short course is a hands-on Thermal Desktop model-building demonstration. The demonstration will start with the selection of a latitude and longitude of a location on the lunar south pole and end with a complete meshed terrain model of the location in Thermal Desktop. The steps will include using MATLAB to process lunar digital elevation models and JPL horizons ephemeris data, using MeshLab to mesh processed point cloud, and using Thermal Desktop to set up the complete thermal model. Terrain detail is selectively preserved near the central location of interest and at horizon locations. The tools and methods presented in this course were developed by the Lunar and Mars Environments Analysis Team and are currently being used to assess thermal environments for HLS, Moon Base, and VIPER.