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Determining the heat flux absorbed by satellite surfaces with temperature data

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This study aims to determine the heat flux absorbed by satellite surfaces with the use of temperature data acquired from the satellite. This process is the first step in the development of an attitude determination method, which is currently being conducted by the authors. The principles of heat flux determination and its limitations are explained. A simple heat flux sensor is proposed in this study to address such limitations. With sufficient temperature data, an inverse solution of the energy equation can be used to determine the heat fluxes absorbed by heat flux sensors. The accuracy of the method depends on the resolution of the sensors used to acquire temperature data. The effects of temperature sensor resolution on the accuracy of the results are discussed in this paper.

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  1. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, 424, Hafez Ave., Tehran, 15875-4413, Iran

    Hojjat Behrooz Khaniki & S. M. Hossein Karimian

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S. M. Hossein Karimian has been a professor at the Aerospace Engineering Department of the Amirkabir University of Technology (I.R.IRAN) since 1995. He studied mechanical engineering at the Amirkabir University of Technology (B.Sc.), the Sharif University of Technology (M.Sc.), and the University of Waterloo (Ph.D.). His research interests include computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, numerical algorithms for incompressible and compressible flows, internal and external flow simulations, aerodynamics of vehicles and buildings, thermal analysis, wind renewable energy, and molecular dynamic simulation. He has published more than 40 papers in refereed journals and more than 80 papers in international and national conference proceedings.

Hojjat Behrooz Khaniki is a Ph.D. student at the Aerospace Engineering Department of the Amirkabir University of Technology (I.R.IRAN). He studied mechanical engineering at the K.N.T. University of Technology (B.Sc.) and Azad University (M.Sc.). His research interests include heat transfer and satellite thermal control. He has published about 10 papers in refereed journals and international and national conference proceedings.

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Khaniki, H.B., Hossein Karimian, S.M. Determining the heat flux absorbed by satellite surfaces with temperature data. J Mech Sci Technol 28, 2393–2398 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-014-0531-6

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