• Backloads and Equivalent Sinks are methods for providing simplistic representations of complicated radiative interfaces for a subset of nodes/surfaces
• Backloads/EqSinks require (at a minimum) radiation couplings and temperature predictions from an integrated model
• Environmental heating rates may also be included in the calculations
• Calculate.
      - Sigma and Toffset
      - Numbering
      - Nodes to calculate
• Using Files
      - Radiation Coupling
      - Temperature
      - Heat Rates
      - Output
      - Validation
• Validation file displays all radiation couplings and their contribution to the calculations
• Estimation of Gray Body Sinks
• Constraint of Lowest Sink Temperature
• Calculation of T4 average
• Support for Group calculation of EqSinks weighted by RadkSum

Click Here to see Backload Output
Click Here to see Sink Output

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