Mission
Development of a new version of CIGAL, an in-house application developed at Alcatel Space for thermal calculations and for constructing of radiative models. Provide an integrated tool to engineers. |
Solution
Development of CIGAL 2, an application combining a virtual CAD model with the CORATHERM in-house solver to perform thermal analysis of spatial radiation on a future satellite. CIGAL 2 models the satellite under study, prepares entry data files for the CORATHERM solver, then displays the results after calculation. |
Benefits
- Reduction of analysis model preparation time thanks to a greatly improved meshing function
- CIGAL 2 enables establishing a link with outside CAD applications
- High modularity will allow meeting future Alcatel Space needs for the treatment of 3D volumes
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| Open CASCADE was the only software with enough flexibility to allow improving our CAD modeling tools and, at the same time, smoothly integrate the model with CORATHERM, our in-house solver.
Thierry Basset, project manager for developments around thermal exchange |
Alcatel Spacebus:one of the most advanced satellite platform
Cigal2, courtesy of Alcatel Space
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