Title :
The Environment-Power System Analysis Tool development program
Author :
Jongeward, Gary A. ; Kuharski, Robert A. ; Kennedy, Eric M. ; Wilcox, Katherine G. ; Stevens, N. John ; Putnam, Rand M. ; Roche, James C.
Author_Institution :
Maxwell Lab. Inc., La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
The Environment Power System Analysis Tool (EPSAT) is being developed to provide engineers with the ability to assess the effects of a broad range of environmental interactions on space power systems. A unique user-interface-data-dictionary code architecture oversees a collection of existing and future environmental modeling codes (e.g. neutral density) and physical interaction models (e.g. Sheath ionization). The user-interface presents the engineer with tables, graphs, and plots which, under supervision of the data dictionary, are automatically updated in response to parameter change. EPSAT thus provides the engineer with a comprehensive and responsive environmental assessment tool and the scientist with a framework into which new environmental or physical models can be easily incorporated
Keywords :
space vehicle power plants; Environment-Power System Analysis Tool; Sheath ionization; environmental modeling codes; neutral density; physical interaction models; space power systems; user-interface-data-dictionary; Automotive engineering; Computer aided engineering; Design engineering; Dictionaries; Performance analysis; Power engineering and energy; Power system analysis computing; Power system modeling; Space technology; Systems engineering and theory;
Conference_Titel :
Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1989. IECEC-89., Proceedings of the 24th Intersociety
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
DOI :
10.1109/IECEC.1989.74489
