THERMOANALYTICS, INC. — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: Z2

Description

The objective of the proposed research is to create a state-of-the-art, human thermal model that predicts crew member induced loads for evaluating a (long-distance) exploration vehiclersquo;s thermal control, environmental control, and life support systems, including for conceptual and early design modeling. To accomplish this, ThermoAnalytics will adapt its widely-used, actively-developed, commercial-off-the-shelf Human Thermal Model for use with the Systems Improved Numerical Differencing Analyzer (SINDA). Specifically, we will create an interface between the TAITherm HTM and Thermal Desktop, which is a front-end to SINDA. The resulting co-simulation will provide conjugate assessments of crew-induced loads and vehicle thermal control systems, predicting the human crewrsquo;s (HTM) requirements of the exploration vehicle (TD) as they produce heat, moisture, and gasses (CO2) and consume O2.