Heat transfer with flow and evaporation in loop heat pipe's wick at low or moderate heat fluxes

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 50, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 2296-2308

  Ren, Chuan ^a   Wu, Qing Song ^a   Hu, Mao Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Axisymmetric; Capillary porous structure; Evaporation; Heat transfer; Loop heat pipe

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; EVAPORATION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CAPILLARY POROUS STRUCTURE; LOOP HEAT PIPES;

HEAT PIPES;

CAPILLARY FLOW; EVAPORATION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT PIPES; HEAT TRANSFER; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 33947114870     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2006.10.029     Document Type: Article

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