Introduction to Spacecraft Thermal Design

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Conduction heat transfer analysis; 3. Radiation heat transfer analysis; 4. The space environment; 5. Space-based advanced thermal conductance and storage technologies; 6. Sensors, instrumentation, and test support hardware; 7. Fundamentals of cryogenics; 8. Developmental and environmental testing.

About the author

Eric A. Silk is a lecturer in the Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Maryland with twenty-two years of engineering experience in spacecraft/instrument thermal modelling, applied thermodynamics, high heat flux cooling systems, and thermal control system design and analysis.

Product details

• Authors: Eric (NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center) Silk, Eric A Silk, Eric A. Silk, Eric A. (University of Maryland Silk
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781107193796
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19379-6
• No. of pages: 584
• Series: Cambridge Aerospace; Cambridge Aerospace Series; Cambridge Aerospace Series, Se
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Thermodynamics; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General), Thermodynamics & heat, Fluid mechanics, Mechanics of fluids, Aerospace & aviation technology, Aerospace and aviation technology, Physics: Fluid mechanics, Thermodynamics and heat, Engineering: Mechanics of fluids