Exchanging Thermal Models with STEP-TAS European Space Agency/ ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

de Koning, Hans Peter, author.

Conference Name:

International Conference On Environmental Systems (2003-07-07 : Vancouver, Canada)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2003

Summary:

Over the last years the open data exchange standards STEP-TAS (Thermal Analysis for Space) and STEP-NRF (Network-model Results Format) have been developed under ESA funding. Both standards are based on ISO 10303/STEP.STEP-TAS converters have been implemented in many different thermal-radiative analysis packages, both in Europe and the US, in either pre-production or prototype versions. For practical use the converters needed to gain robustness and scaleability to exchange large models. In order to achieve the required industrial robustness and at the same time to lower as much as possible the barriers to implement the protocol, ESA has taken the following measures: The paper and presentation discuss the state of STEP-TAS implementations for thermal-radiative model exchange. Also new developments to support exchange of thermal lumped parameter network models (e.g. ESATAN, SINDA-G, SINDA-85) including unit conversion (e.g. Imperial to SI) are shown. These have been verified extensively for a number of ISS and STS thermal interface models

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Publisher Number:

2003-01-2605

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