Low-gravity experiments of lightweight flexible heat pipe panels with self-rewetting fluids

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1161, Issue , 2009, Pages 554-561

  Tanaka, Kotaro ^a   Abe, Yoshiyuki ^b,f   Nakagawa, Masayuki ^c   Piccolo, Chiara ^d   Savino, Raffaele ^e  

^a SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d MARS srl   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Heat pipe; Marangoni effect; Microgravity; Space; Surface tension; Thermal management

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GRAVITY; LIQUID; SURFACE TENSION; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TUBE; WEIGHT;

EID: 65249167610     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.04333.x     Document Type: Article

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