Adds a constant for the surface area of a HE pipe exposed to sunlight.

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2015-01-13 15:22:55 -07:00
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//radiation constants
#define STEFAN_BOLTZMANN_CONSTANT 0.0000000567 //W/(m^2*K^4)
#define COSMIC_RADIATION_TEMPERATURE 3.15 //K
#define AVERAGE_SOLAR_RADIATION 200 //W/m^2. Kind of arbitrary. Really this should depend on the sun position much like solars.
#define AVERAGE_SOLAR_RADIATION 200 //W/m^2. Kind of arbitrary. Really this should depend on the sun position much like solars. From the numbers on Erebus, this'd be an orbit of 23.3 lightseconds.
#define RADIATOR_OPTIMUM_PRESSURE 110 //kPa at 20 C
#define RADIATOR_EXPOSED_SURFACE_AREA 0.03 //The pipe looks to be thin vertically and wide horizontally, so we'll assume that it's three centimeters thick and only explosed to the sun edge-on.
#define CELL_VOLUME 2500 //liters in a cell
#define MOLES_CELLSTANDARD (ONE_ATMOSPHERE*CELL_VOLUME/(T20C*R_IDEAL_GAS_EQUATION)) //moles in a 2.5 m^3 cell at 101.325 Pa and 20 degC