Assessment of nanostructured capillary wicks for passive two-phase heat transport

Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 179-194

  Ranjan, Ram ^a   Garimella, Suresh V ^a   Murthy, Jayathi Y ^a   Yazawa, Kazuaki ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; heat pipe; nanowick; wick structure

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FORCE; CAPILLARY TRANSPORT; CAPILLARY WICK; FLOW RESISTANCE; FLUX INPUTS; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; HEAT TRANSPORT; HIGH RATE; MAJOR FACTORS; METALLIC NANOWIRES; NANO SCALE; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOWICK; SINTERED PARTICLES; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; THERMAL SPREADERS; WICK STRUCTURES; WICKING;

CARBON NANOTUBES; HEAT FLUX; NANOWIRES; SINTERING; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TWO PHASE FLOW;

HEAT RESISTANCE;

EID: 80051505305     PISSN: 15567265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15567265.2011.597492     Document Type: Article

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