Affiliation:
1. Itek Corporation, Palo Alto, Calif.
Abstract
A method is presented for determining the transient temperature distribution of a solid sphere cooling in space. The sphere is assumed initially to be at a uniform temperature and then instantaneously subjected to the radiation sink of space at time zero. This nonlinear problem was solved by using finite-difference computing techniques. Results are presented in dimensionless graphical form over a wide range of variables. This facilitates calculation of the transient temperature history at several points in the sphere.
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science
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