Loop heat pipe for spacecraft thermal control, part 1: Vacuum chamber tests

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 417-429

  Parker, Michelle L ^a   Drolen, Bruce L ^a   Ayyaswamy, Portonovo S ^b  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATORS; HEATING; LEAKAGE (FLUID); PRESSURE DROP; RADIATORS; SPACECRAFT; VACUUM APPLICATIONS; VAPORS;

LIQUID RETURN LINES; LOOP HEAT PIPES (LHP); THERMAL CONTROL; VACUUM CHAMBERS;

HEAT PIPES;

HEAT PIPE; HEAT TRANSFER; SPACECRAFT; TESTING;

EID: 8644246768     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: 15336808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.3641     Document Type: Article

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