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A transient model for liquid metal heat pipes
Jong T. Seo,Mohamed S. El-Genk +1 more
- pp 114-119
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The article was published on 1988-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 27 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Transient response & Heat pipe.read more
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A heat pipe transient analysis model
TL;DR: In this paper, a two-dimensional heat pipe transient analysis model, called HPTAM, is developed for simulating operations of fully-thawed heat pipes, where the axial distributions of liquid and vapor pressures, effective radius of curvature of the liquid meniscus at the liquid-vapor interface, and liquid pooling and recession following step function heatup and cooldown transients of a horizontal water heat pipe.
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An analysis of the vapor flow and the heat conduction through the liquid-wick and pipe wall in a heat pipe with single or multiple heat sources
Ming-Ming Chen,Amir Faghri +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical analysis of the overall performance of a heat pipe with single or multiple heat sources is presented, which includes the heat conduction in the wall and liquid-wick regions as well as the compressibility effect of the vapor inside the heat pipe.
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A vapor flow model for analysis of liquid-metal heat pipe startup from a frozen state
TL;DR: In this article, a free-molecular, transition and continuum vapor flow model was developed and incorporated in HPTAM, a two-dimensional heat pipe transient analysis model, to analyze the startup of a radiatively-cooled sodium heat pipe from a frozen state.
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Analytical modeling of the startup characteristics of asymmetrical flat-plate and diskshaped heat pipes
N. Zhu,Kambiz Vafai +1 more
TL;DR: An analytical model for the startup transient of asymmetrical flat-plate and disk-shaped heat pipes is developed in this paper, where the heat transfer within the wall and liquid-wick regions is coupled with the vapor phase at the liquid-vapor interfaces.
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Performance analysis of heat pipe radiator unit for space nuclear power reactor
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a physical and numerical model to obtain the startup and transient behaviors of a heat pipe covered by a fin under space environment, and adopted the heat transfer limit theory as criteria for heat pipe operation success.
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