Assessment of spacecraft integration issues is typically accomplished with a combination of numerical tools developed to simulate different regions with different key physics. For instance, a detailed study of spacecraft with an electric propulsion device requires a device model, a plume model, and a spacecraft charging model. AFRL’s in-house spacecraft simulation tool, TURF, is now capable of performing all of these calculations in one simulation. In addition, the plume simulation capability has been expanded significantly to improve speed and accuracy. Other upgrades in TURF include adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and dynamic load balancing. All of these upgrades are covered in this paper by providing detailed descriptions or pointing to relevant references. This paper also presents three example simulations demonstrating its multi-physics multi-scale capability.


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    Titel :

    Current Capabilities of AFRL’s Spacecraft Simulation Tool


    Beteiligte:
    Samuel J. Araki (Autor:in) / Robert S. Martin (Autor:in) / David L. Bilyeu (Autor:in) / Lubos Brieda (Autor:in) / Carrie Hill (Autor:in) / Maria Choi (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    37th International Electric Propulsion Conference ; 2022 ; Boston, MA, US


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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