Performance limits for smooth-wall gravity-assisted heat pipes
Abstract
The data are correlated with parameters derived from flooding in countercurrent, two phase flows. Tests using smooth walled, wickless heat pipes demonstrate the applicability of two phase flow correlations for predicting performance limits in gravity assisted heat pipes.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983STIN...8334262P
- Keywords:
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- Fluid Flow;
- Gravitation;
- Heat Pipes;
- Multiphase Flow;
- Performance Tests;
- Comparison;
- Data Correlation;
- Numerical Analysis;
- Vertical Orientation;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer