Problems of assuring thermal conditions of spacecraft and other complex systems

The paper examines problems of machine processing of thermal data including development of algorithms and planning of thermal experiments for design of spacecraft. It is shown that experimental investigation of non-steady state thermal processes requires the establishment of boundary thermal conditions and temperature fields within the model. This task is reduced to an inverse boundary-value heat conduction problem, solved by special gradient minimization methods which can be applied to machine processing of thermal experimental data in designing spacecraft and its components.