Modeling of Loop Heat Pipe Thermal Performance

Experimental Investigations on the Thermal Performance of a Vertical Closed Loop Pulsating Heat Pipe Using Binary Mixture of Fluids

This paper presents the experimental investigations conducted on a vertical closed loop pulsating heat pipe (VCLPHP) to evaluate the thermal performance. The values of thermal resistance and heat transfer coefficient obtained in the experimentation is used as evaluation parameters. The VCLPHP used has capillary tubes having an inner diameter of 2mm and outside diameter 3mm and bent into 5 turns...

Effect of Working Fluid on Thermal Performance of Closed Loop Pulsating Heat Pipe: A Review

Thermal management of electronics semiconductor technology is elixir to transform dream and imagination of the designers into reality. Motivation and need for research in development of novel cooling strategies for modern electronics is of paramount importance. Pulsating Heat Pipes, a novel research topic in heat pipe science, are new two-phase heat transfer devices that rely on the oscillatory...

Performance of Flexible Evaporator for Loop Heat Pipe Technologies

Steady-State and Transient Loop Heat Pipe Modeling

The NASA-standard thermohydraulic analyzer, SINDA/ FLUINT (Ref 1), has been used to model various aspects of loop heat pipe* (LHP) operation for more than 12 years. Indeed, this code has many features that were specifically designed for just such specialized tasks, and is unique in this respect. Furthermore, SINDA is commonly used at the vehicle (integration) level, has a large user base both i...

Numerical Analysis of Thermal Performance of Flat Heat Pipe

Three dimensional numerical investigation is carried out to study the influence of geometry on thermal behavior of flat heat pipe. Two phase mixture model has been formulated to investigate the phase change phenomena during steady state operation of flat heat pipe. In this model, single fluid approach is used and governing equations for mass, momentum and energy are discretised using finite vol...