SoftwareApplication
identifier: 10.4121/20398698
name: SDA Thermo-Elastic Python Scripts, underlying the master thesis: Thermo-Elastic Analysis of a Spiral Dish Antenna Reflector In Space.
description: SDA Thermo-Elastic Python Scripts, underlying the master thesis: Thermo-Elastic Analysis of a Spiral Dish Antenna Reflector In Space.
description: These scripts were used for Nathan van der Wielen's Master thesis for the thermo-elastic study of a novel spiral dish antenna (SDA) reflector. The following scripts are used with ESATAN-TMS, Abaqus, and a Python IDE. Base Reflector Thermo-Elastic Analysis.py - reads .csv data of heat flux, surface area and time from 7 different ESATAN output files for all LPM nodes, builds a normal reflector model in Abaqus, assignes the heat fluxes to the correct surfaces, performs a thermo-elastic analysis, and outputs a thermal and deflection csv file. Spiral Dish Antenna Reflector Thermo-Elastic Analysis.py - same as the previous python script but for an SDA reflector. SDA and Reflector Thermo-Elastic Analysis Result Study.py - Reads the output files from the different scripts for the different cases, calculates, and output results/plots comparing different cases.
author: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4780-8723
keywords: ESATAN
keywords: thermal analysis
keywords: Reflector
keywords: ABAQUS python scripting
keywords: Space
keywords: Python scripts
keywords: thermo-elastic analysis
keywords: ABAQUS
license:
  creative work: creativeWork
    name: CC0-1.0

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4780-8723
type: Person
given name: Nathan
family name: van der Wielen
name: Nathan van der Wielen