Published 1986 | Version v1
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Heat pipe entrainment analysis via optical methods

Creators

  • 1. Texas A and M Univ., College Station

Description

Entrainment in a wicked heat pipe is the stripping of liquid from the menisci of a capillary structure, preventing complete fluid circulation. Entrainment is perhaps the least studied of the energy transport limitations in the heat pipes, due to difficulties in measuring or observing it, and remains the greatest uncertainty in the flow modelling of heat pipes; thus, much work remains to be done in the study of this phenomenon. The objective of this study is to identify and characterize the physical mechanisms associated with the entrainment phenomenon

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Transactions of the symposia on space nuclear power systems. Summaries 1986
Journal Page Range
p. TM-9.1-TM-9.3.
Report number
CONF-860102--Summs

Conference

Title
3. symposium on space nuclear power systems.
Dates
13-16 Jan 1986.
Place
Albuquerque, NM (USA).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
18100634
Subject category
S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
CAPILLARY FLOW; ENTRAINMENT; HEAT PIPES; HEAT TRANSFER; SPACE POWER REACTORS
Descriptors DEC
ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUID FLOW; MOBILE REACTORS; POWER REACTORS; REACTORS