CubeSat Phase Change Material Heat Sink under Excess Thermal Loading

Haokun Zhang; Firas Jarrar; Yap Yit Fatt

doi:10.1063/5.0228297

CubeSat Phase Change Material Heat Sink under Excess Thermal Loading

Haokun Zhang
, Firas Jarrar
, Yap Yit Fatt

Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering

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Abstract

A CubeSat is a miniaturized satellite that consists of one or more cubic units each with an edge length of 10cm. Due to the compact size of the CubeSat, the heat generated inside is also confined to a limited space, making its thermal management challenging. The Phase Change Material (PCM) heat sink is a promising solution for thermal management in CubeSats. The objective of study is to analyze computationally the operation of a gallium PCM heat sink in a CubeSat exposed to thermal loading in excess of normal operation. The results show that the bottleneck of the investigated PCM heat sink is the radiative heat dissipation at the external surface of heat sink.

Original language	British English
Article number	060007
Journal	AIP Conference Proceedings
Volume	3090
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0228297
State	Published - 8 Oct 2024
Event	15th Regional Conference on Energy Engineering, RCEneE 2022 and the 13th International Conference on Thermofluids 2022, THERMOFLUID 2022 - Hybrid, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Duration: 25 Oct 2022 → 26 Oct 2022

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CubeSat Phase Change Material Heat Sink under Excess Thermal Loading

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