A model of liquid flow on the condensation fin top-groove corner of a micro-grooved heat pipe

2017-06-01
Akdağ, Osman
Akkuş, Yiğit
Dursunkaya, Zafer
Heat pipes, which use the phase change heat transfer mechanism, are widely used in various terrestrial , aviation and space applications due to their capability of carrying large amounts of heat with a small temperature difference. The working loop of a heat pipe includes condensation, capillary flow of the condensate, evaporation and cross flow of the vapor. Accurate modeling of each of these phenomena is crucial to estimate the overall performance of a heat pipe. The condensation phenomenon is the least studied in literature and current models suffer from the lack of accuracy in estimating the liquid-vapor interface profile on the fin top. Focusing on the modeling of condensation in rectangular grooved heat pipes, the present study develops a new approach to model the capillary induced free surface flow in the neighborhood of a corner region, which in a heat pipe, is the intersection of the fin top and the groove wall. The liquid film profile obtained for constant mass flow rate and for a representative condensation model are presented.
International Conference on Computational Heat, Mass and Momentum Transfer, (28 Mayıs - 01 Haziran 2017)

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Citation Formats
O. Akdağ, Y. Akkuş, and Z. Dursunkaya, “A model of liquid flow on the condensation fin top-groove corner of a micro-grooved heat pipe,” presented at the International Conference on Computational Heat, Mass and Momentum Transfer, (28 Mayıs - 01 Haziran 2017), Seoul, Korea, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/77313.