cff-version: 1.2.0
abstract: "<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Spiral Dish Antenna Reflector Thermo-Elastic Analysis.py - same as the previous python script but for an SDA reflector.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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authors:
  - family-names: van der Wielen
    given-names: Nathan
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4780-8723"
title: "SDA Thermo-Elastic Python Scripts, underlying the master thesis: Thermo-Elastic Analysis of a Spiral Dish Antenna Reflector In Space."
keywords:
version: 1
identifiers:
  - type: doi
    value: 10.4121/20398698.v1
license: CC0
date-released: 2022-09-06