The activity is to be carried out by a consortium comprising several AM suppliers, using the same test house in order to ensure consistency and similarity of all the tests conducted. Ideally, the prime contractor should be a Large System Integrator (LSI), but could also be an equipment or a Tier 1 supplier, i.e. a company having design and testing capabilities (or the capability to establish test plans).

 

The current Loop Heat Pipe (LHP) module is increasingly needed to support thermal control design and modelling activities for various missions such as Aeolus, MTG and ExoMars. It is fully operational but only for a limited number of LHP architectures and analytical scenarios and they do not cover current needs. The proposed activity aims to further develop and extend this module the following ways:

• Tuning of the module to improve performance and steady state convergence.