Thermal Vacuum Testing of a Small Loop Heat Pipe with a PTFE Wick for Spacecraft Thermal Control

Coherent Porous Silicon Wick for a MEMS Loop Heat Pipe

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Experimental Investigations on the Thermal Performance of a Vertical Closed Loop Pulsating Heat Pipe Using Binary Mixture of Fluids

This paper presents the experimental investigations conducted on a vertical closed loop pulsating heat pipe (VCLPHP) to evaluate the thermal performance. The values of thermal resistance and heat transfer coefficient obtained in the experimentation is used as evaluation parameters. The VCLPHP used has capillary tubes having an inner diameter of 2mm and outside diameter 3mm and bent into 5 turns...

Comparative Study on Space Qualified Paints Used for Thermal Control of a Small Satellite

Effect of Working Fluid on Thermal Performance of Closed Loop Pulsating Heat Pipe: A Review

Thermal management of electronics semiconductor technology is elixir to transform dream and imagination of the designers into reality. Motivation and need for research in development of novel cooling strategies for modern electronics is of paramount importance. Pulsating Heat Pipes, a novel research topic in heat pipe science, are new two-phase heat transfer devices that rely on the oscillatory...

Factors Affecting the Thermal Performance of Heat Pipe –a Review

Heat pipes are heat transfer devices that enhances large amount of heat which works on the principle of evaporation and condensation of a working fluid. Inspite of wide application of heat pipe in microelectronics cooling system the trend of the chips performance and power utilization has been increased each year and a complete understanding of mechanism has not yet been completed even though i...