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    ANSYS 13.0 Mechanical

    sorry, made a mistake when I was writing out the equation, its supposed to be Te = (Ain/Aout*alpha/epsilon*So/sigma)^(1/4)
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    ANSYS 13.0 Mechanical

    Sorry I didn't add the emissivity, .35, and absorptivity, .1. I have found that most small satellites have the temperature range of -80C to 80C, obviously this depends on the orbit. I believe my problem is with my ambient temperature, I am setting it to 4K, but this isn't always true if your...
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    Restarting an analysis using adpl in ANSYS 13.0 Mechanical

    I was curious if anyone has had any experience restarting an analysis using ADPL in ANSYS Mechanical 13.0 I have found the following code, but if I do a run then place this code in the Commands(ADPL) I get an error, here is the ADPL I'm trying to use for restarting the run. ! Restart run...
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    ANSYS 13.0 Mechanical

    I am currently working on a thermal analysis for a satellite in ANSYS. I have been able to generate the satellites thermal flux that it will receive from the suns, earths, moons, etc radiations. I have this working through matlab code to determine heat flux for all sides of the satellite. My...
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