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Extensive numerical study on the heat transfer performance of the gaseous nitrogen (GN) thermoregulation shroud surface was conducted in this work. The average heat transfer coefficient was investigated under different shroud length and nitrogen parameters (such as velocity, temperature and mass flow rate). The result shows that the heat transfer performance is affected less by shroud length but largely by mass flow rate. When the mass flow rate is constant, the inlet temperature increases heat transfer coefficient. Finally, dimensionless correlation of the average Nusselt number over shroud surface with Reynolds number and Prandtl number was obtained.

There is an urgent need to develop a real-time database (RTDB) to handle large amounts of real-time data, to realize process monitoring of vacuum cold-black environment simulation, cold-black environment data acquisition, fault processing, data storage, etc. This paper conducts real-time database design through network architecture, functional modules, communication interfaces, data management, and transaction scheduling. Simulation test and associated debugging test show that the real-time database can efficiently process large data volume, and the data interaction efficiency is greatly improved to meet the needs of space environment simulation equipment, laying a solid data foundation for subsequent applications.

The temperature control system is an indispensable key system for the thermal vacuum test. It is used to simulate the infrared heat flow environment of the spacecraft in orbit. In order to improve the stability and reliability of temperature control, this paper designs and develops a thermal vacuum test temperature control system based on the Modbus RTU serial communication protocol on the LabVIEW platform. The system combines the flexibility of software development on LabVIEW platform and combines the stability of serial communication with controller. This temperature control system has been used in thermal vacuum test, the control effect of overshooting within 1°C and temperature control accuracy within ±0.2°C. The system has high stability, which achieves the expected goal.