Controlling the Power of the Internal Heat Sources of Space Vehicles.

This article briefly considers the basic principles of the modern digital systems of controlling space vehicles and the methods of their provision in solving the thermal control problems. For the generalized model of heat exchange with lumped parameters, the problem of nonterminal control of the heat power of internal sources has been formulated and solved by the variational-iterative method. The developed procedure has been verified using the simplest model of heat transfer in a nonhermetic space vehicle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]