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Space Laboratory on a Tabletop – A Next Generation ECLSS Design and Diagnostic Tool
Technical Paper
2005-01-2766
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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This paper describes the development plan for a comprehensive research and diagnostic tool for aspects of advanced life support systems in space-based laboratories. Specifically, it aims to build a high fidelity tabletop model that can be used for the purpose of risk mitigation, failure mode analysis, contamination tracking, and testing reliability. The work envisions a comprehensive approach involving experimental work coupled with numerical simulation to develop this diagnostic tool. The use of an index matching fluid (fluid that matches the refractive index of cast acrylic, the model material) allows making the entire model (with complex internal geometry) transparent and hence conducive to non-intrusive optical diagnostics. Experimental and modeling work to date will be presented.
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Ramachandran, N. and Perry, J., "Space Laboratory on a Tabletop – A Next Generation ECLSS Design and Diagnostic Tool ," SAE Technical Paper 2005-01-2766, 2005, https://doi.org/10.4271/2005-01-2766.Also In
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