Analysis of Frozen Startup of High-Temperature Heat Pipes and Three- Dimensional Modeling of Block-Heated Heat Pipes

Abstract

The use of high-temperature heat pipes has been proposed for cooling the leading edges and nose cones of re-entry vehicles, rail guns, and laser mirrors, as well as for the thermal management of future hypersonic vehicle structures. The startup behavior of high temperature heat pipes from the frozen state was investigated both numerically and experimentally for various heat loads and input locations. A high temperature sodium/stainless steel heat pipe with multiple heat sources and sinks was fabricated, processed, and tested. A numerical simulation of the transient heat pipe performance including the vapor region, wick structure and the heat pipe wall is given. Furthermore, experimental and numerical analyses of several operating parameters of a low- temperature copper-water heat pipe under uniform circumferential heating and block heating has been performed. Finally, a numerical analysis of transient heat pipe performance including nonconventional heat pipes with nonuniform heat distributions is presented. Numerical calculations were then made for a leading edge heat pipe with localized high heat fluxes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA245327

Entities

People

  • Amir Faghri

Organizations

  • Wright State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Engineering
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Flux
  • Heat Pipes
  • Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Coefficients
  • Heat Transfer Devices
  • High Temperature
  • Latent Heat
  • Low Temperature
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Temperature Gradients
  • Thermodynamics

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers
  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow