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Evaporator critical heat flux in the double-wall artery heat pipe
Authors:R Ponnappan  ML Ramalingam  JE Johnson  ET Mahefkey
Institution:

Universal Energy Systems, Inc., Dayton, Ohio, USA

Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, USA

Abstract:The fact that heat is transferred into a heat pipe through the liquid-saturated evaporator wick gives rise to the so-called boiling limit on the heat pipe capacity. The composite nature of the double-wall artery heat pipe (DWAHP) wick structure makes the prediction of the evaporator superheat (Δ Tcrit) and the critical radial heat flux (qr) very difficult. The effective thermal conductivity of the wick, the effective radius of critical nucleation cavity, and the nucleation superheat, which are important parameters for double-wall wick evaporator heat transfer, have been evaluated based on the available theoretical models. Empirical correlations are used to corroborate the experimental results of the 2 m DWAHP. A heat choke mounted on the evaporator made it possible to measure the evaporator external temperatures, which were not measured in the previous tests. The high values of the measured evaporator wall temperatures are explainable with the assumption of a thin layer of vapor blanket at the inner heating surface. It has been observed that partial saturation of the wick (lean evaporator) causes the capillary limit to drop even though it may be good for efficient convective heat transfer through the wick. The 2 m long copper-water heat pipe had a peak performance of 1850 W at not, vert, similar23 W/cm2 with a horizontal orientation.
Keywords:heat pipe  evaporator  boiling  thermal conductivity  critical heat flux
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