Numerical thermal analysis of SEAM

Abstract: This thesis is on the topic of numerical thermal analysis, specically of the SmallExplorer for Advanced Missions SEAM. SEAM is a 3 unit Cubesat, which isgoing to be launched in a sun-synchronous orbit to measure the magnetic sphere.It makes use of a boom deployment system to remove the sensors from themagnetic eld inuences of the body. The goal of this thesis is to study thethermal behaviour of the satellite, specically the internal components and thethermal deformation of the boom structure. The numerical simulations makeuse of the Monte Carlo Ray-tracing method. Furthermore thermal vacuumcycle tests have been compared to the thermal model as a form of validation.Additionally the thesis also serves as a nal thermal analysis of the satellite, tocheck if all components operate within their specied thermal operating range.