Tests on a sodium/Hastelloy X wing leading edge heat pipe for hypersonic vehicles
Abstract
A full-scale, internally instrumented, sodium/Hastelloy X heat pipe was designed and fabricated for the wing leading edge of an advanced reentry vehicle. A computer model was developed to predict the heat pipe startup. The heat pipe was tested, and the results were used to validate the startup methodologies. In addition, valuable fabrication and test procedure lessons were learned.
- Publication:
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AIAA and ASME, 5th Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference
- Pub Date:
- June 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990jtht.confT....B
- Keywords:
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- Full Scale Tests;
- Hastelloy (Trademark);
- Heat Pipes;
- Hypersonic Vehicles;
- Leading Edges;
- Liquid Sodium;
- Reentry Vehicles;
- Design Analysis;
- Fabrication;
- Heat Transfer;
- Hypersonic Reentry;
- Superplasticity;
- Test Stands;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer