Calculation of linear conductances for thermal lumped models by means of the CMF method

Evaluating Structural Details’ Influence on Elastic Wave Propagation for Composite Structures via Ray Tracing

“…The ray-tracing-based approach offers significant advantages over traditional numerical methods in terms of computational efficiency and ease of implementation. It provides a practical tool to analyze wave propagation phenomena and has been widely used in scientific research for many different applications, most notably astronomy [29], optical design [30], ocean acoustics [31,32], and heat transfer [33]. Specifically, it has also been previously used in SHM to solve the guided wave propagation problem [34][35][36][37] and it has proven its effectiveness.…”

On the Thermo-Electrical Modeling of Small Satellite's Solar Panels

“…It should be underlined that ESATAN © is the thermal analysis software required by the European Space Agency (ESA) in all its missions [18]. Many works in the available literature are an example of the use of this software to analyze thermal behavior of space systems [19]- [22]. The most relevant contribution of the present work is the achievement of thermo-electric coupled modeling programmed in ESATAN © , that was made possible, thanks to the explicit method developed to analyze solar panel electrical behavior [17].…”