Direct simulation of thermal transport through sintered wick microstructures

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Bodla, Karthik K ^a   Murthy, Jayathi Y ^a   Garimella, Suresh V ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

effective thermal conductivity; heat pipes; microtomography; permeability; porous media; sintered beds

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; DIRECT SIMULATION; EFFECTIVE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FINITE VOLUME; HEAT TRANSPORT DEVICES; HIGH QUALITY; IMAGE STACKS; INTERFACIAL HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; INTERSTITIAL PORES; MICRO-TOMOGRAPHY; POROUS WICKS; SINTERED BEDS; SINTERED MICROSTRUCTURE; SINTERED SAMPLES; SPHERICAL PARTICLE BEDS; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; THERMAL TRANSPORT; THERMAL TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAT PIPES; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS; SINTERING; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 82655189428     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4004804     Document Type: Article

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