The liquid droplet radiator in space: A parametric approach
Abstract
The Liquid Droplet Radiator (LDR) consists of a column or sheet of liquid droplets moving through space from a droplet generator to a collector. The droplets carry the waste heat generated by a space power system and radiate this waste heat directly to space during their flight. The liquid droplets are collected at a lower temperature, reheated and pumped to the generator and reused to remove waste heat from the thermodynamic power cycle. A parametric analysis is given of a cylindrical LDR to estimate its performance and operating characteristics using a new pump specific mass term.
- Publication:
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Transactions of the Fifth Symposium on Space Nuclear Power Systems
- Pub Date:
- 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988snps.symp..313B
- Keywords:
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- Drops (Liquids);
- Heat Transfer;
- Liquid Cooling;
- Parameterization;
- Spacecraft Power Supplies;
- Spacecraft Radiators;
- Thermodynamic Cycles;
- Flow Velocity;
- Pumps;
- Waste Heat;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer