Heat pipe wick
Abstract
This patent application discloses a heat pipe with an improved wick design which has an unheated section of greater wick wall thickness next to the evaporator section of the heat pipe and on the opposite side of the evaporator section from the condenser section. The greater wick wall thickness acts as a reservoir of liquid heat pipe working fluid to prevent dry out of the wick during pulsed high thermal energy transfer conditions and to eliminate the need to enforce quasisteady state heat input requirements during start-up operation.
- Publication:
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Patent Application Department of the Air Force
- Pub Date:
- July 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985pad..reptV....B
- Keywords:
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- Evaporators;
- Heat Pipes;
- Heat Transfer;
- Wicks;
- Patent Applications;
- Starting;
- Thick Walls;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer