%0 Journal Article %A Chen, Bo %A Zhang, Hanze %A Liu, Mingyue %A Li, Ning %A Chen, Xue %A Liu, Heguang %D 2019 %I Begell House %K thermal simulation, antenna, composite, carbon fiber and aluminium honeycomb, finite element analysis %N 1-2 %P 51-55 %R 10.1615/ComputThermalScien.2018024509 %T SIMPLIFICATION STUDY OF A KIND OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURE %U https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/648192910890cd0e,7344e09e13d9db41,1d255dc816bf0360.html %V 11 %X In this paper, the thermal simplification of the surface of a satellite borne microwave antenna of a kind of sandwich composite of carbon fiber and aluminium honeycomb is discussed. For this kind of composite, it is necessary to do some simplification when doing the thermal analysis. A uniform unit repeatedly was obtained and the equivalent thermal parameters such as thermal conductivity and heat capacity were computed. The influences of simplification methods on the thermal results and computation speed were contrasted and discussed. %8 2018-09-11