As the demand for high performance small electronic devices has increased, heat removal
from these devices for space use is approaching critical limits. A heat pipe is a promising
device to enhance the heat removal performance due to the phase change phenomena for
space thermal management system. Even though a heat pipe has a big potential to remove
the thermal energy from a high heat flux source, the heat removal performance of heat
pipes cannot be predicted well since the first principle of evaporation has not been
established. The purpose of this study is to establish a method to apply the evaporation
model based on the statistical rate theory for engineering application including
vapor-liquid-structure intermolecular effect. The evaporation model is applied to the heat
pipe performance analysis through a pressure balance and an energy balance in the loop
heat pipe.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/1239 |
| Date | 15 November 2004 |
| Creators | Oinuma, Ryoji |
| Contributors | Best, Frederick R. |
| Publisher | Texas A&M University |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Dissertation, text |
| Format | 1773254 bytes, 198652 bytes, electronic, application/pdf, text/plain, born digital |
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