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Thermal modelling of the chip for the REMS wind sensor. (English) Zbl 1197.82112

Summary: The silicon chip designed and fabricated by Micro and Nano Technology Group from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, which has been delivered to the Rover Environment Monitoring Station project, is the basic sensing element of the wind sensor included on the meteorological station for the Mars rover. The purpose of this article is to describe a thermal modelling analysis of the sensor under the rarefied Martian environment and to assure the sensor ability for reliable wind speed and incidence angle measurements.

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82D10 Statistical mechanics of plasmas
80A20 Heat and mass transfer, heat flow (MSC2010)
76P05 Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics
85A20 Planetary atmospheres
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