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Accession Number:
ADP002123
Title:
High Voltage Solar Array Models and Shuttle Tile Charging,
Corporate Author:
AIR FORCE GEOPHYSICS LAB HANSCOM AFB MA
Report Date:
1983-01-25
Abstract:
This paper described NASCAPLEO NASA Charging Analyzer ProgramLow Earth Orbit a 3-D computer code that simulates the interaction of space plasma with high-voltage solar arrays in the thin plasma sheath regime. The code requires information about the object and the ambient plasma. The geometric description, the material composition and the voltage distribution versus time of a solar array are the data required about the object. The plasma properties needed are the composition, density, and temperature. NASCAPLEO will then provide the time-dependent current to each element of area of the array from the external plasma. The NASCAPLEO output is provided in both three-dimensional computer graphics and in numerical form. NASCAPLEO is user-oriented and wil provide potential distributions around the object, the currents to each of the conductors, and graphical details of the sheath and particle trajectories.
Supplementary Note:
This article is from 'Proceedings of the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory Workshop on Natural Charging of Large Space Structures in Near Earth Polar Orbit: 14-15 September 1982,' AD-A134 894, p311-319.
Pages:
0003
File Size:
0.00MB
