Modeling of room-temperature heat pipe startup from the frozen state

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 165-172

  Ochterbeck, J M ^a,b  

^a AMRL   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PH; SUBLIMATION;

FROZEN STATE; NONCONDENSIBLE GAS CHARGING; WORKING FLUIDS;

HEAT PIPES;

GAS; MODELLING; PIPES;

EID: 0031126946     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: 15336808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.6248     Document Type: Article

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