Methodology for Energy-efficient Heat Removal Control of the Transmitting Complex of a High-Potential Space Monitoring Radar

This work is devoted to the development of a technique for energy-efficient heat removal control in a modern space monitoring radar station. For this purpose, a thermal model of a power amplification unit operating inside the transmitting radio-electronic complex is constructed. The method of a quasi-homogeneous anisotropic body was used, which allows minimizing the computational costs of calculations by replacing a unit with a complex internal structure with a quasi-homogeneous body. The algorithm for energy-efficient control of heat removal from the power amplification unit is based on a thermal model that provides a forecast of the unit’s temperature. According to the proposed algorithm, control actions on the cooling system are formed based on the temperature forecast. To evaluate the effectiveness of the developed algorithm in practice, a demonstration computational experiment was carried out. The constructed thermal model makes it possible to use this model and the developed heat removal technique at the operational stage of the radar station.