Adoni, Abhijit A and Ambirajan, Amrit and Jasvanth, VS and Kumar, D Nagesh and Dutta, Pradip (2010) Theoretical Studies of Hard Filling in Loop Heat Pipes. In: Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 24 (1). pp. 173-183.
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Loop heat pipe is a passive two-phase heat transport device that is gaining importance as a part of spacecraft thermal control systems and also in applications (such as in avionic cooling and submarines). Hard fill of a loop heat pipe occurs when the compensation chamber is full of liquid. A theoretical study is undertaken to investigate the issues underlying the loop beat pipe hard-fill phenomenon. The results of the study suggest that the mass of charge and the presence of a bayonet have significant impact on the loop heat pipe operation. With a largern mass of charge, a loop heat pipe hard fills at a lower heat load. As the heat load increases, there is a steep rise in the loop heat pipe operating temperature. In a loop heat pipe with a saturated compensation chamber, and also in a hard-filled loop heat pipe without a bayonet, the temperature of the compensation chamber and that of the liquid core are nearly equal. When a loop heat pipe with a bayonet hard fills, the compensation chamber and the evaporator core temperatures are different.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer |
| Publisher: | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Mechanical Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2010 09:35 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jun 2011 06:11 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/25788 |
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