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Kirk L. Yerkes
Researcher at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Publications - 39
Citations - 252
Kirk L. Yerkes is an academic researcher from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The author has contributed to research in topics: Heat transfer & Heat transfer coefficient. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 39 publications receiving 234 citations. Previous affiliations of Kirk L. Yerkes include Air Force Research Laboratory.
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Variable-Gravity Effects on a Single-Phase Partially-Confined Spray Cooling System
Kirk L. Yerkes,Travis E. Michalak,Kerri M. Baysinger,Rebekah L. Puterbaugh,Scott K. Thomas,John McQuillen +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a spray chamber with two opposing nozzles spraying on Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) heaters was used for variable gravity flight tests on the NASA KC-135 Reduced-Gravity Research Aircraft.
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Titanium-Water Loop Heat Pipe Operating Characteristics Under Standard and Elevated Acceleration Fields
TL;DR: In this paper, the behavior of a titanium-water loop heat pipe under standard and elevated acceleration fields was examined, and it was found that dryout was dependent on both Q in and a r, and that the ability for the loop to reprime after an acceleration event that induced dry out was influenced by the evaporator temperature.
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Quasi-Steady-State Performance of a Heat Pipe Subjected to Transient Acceleration Loadings
Scott K. Thomas,Kirk L. Yerkes +1 more
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Cooling Performance of a 16-Nozzle Array in Variable Gravity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the cooling performance of 16-nozzle spray array using FC-72 as the working fluid in variable-gravity conditions and found that the performance was enhanced in microgravity over terrestrial and elevated gravity, possibly due to liquid buildup on the surface between the nozzle impact zones.
Experimental Testing and Numerical Modeling of Spray Cooling Under Terrestrial Gravity Conditions
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of volumetric flow rate, heat transfer rate, and orientation with respect to gravity on the experimental system were studied and the numerical model data was compared with the experimental data in order to determine the spray heat transfer coefficient along the top of the heated surface.