DocumentCode
2540250
Title
A consistent description of the gas distribution in a gas-loaded heat pipe
Author
Chang, Won Soon ; Yu, Juin S.
Author_Institution
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA
fYear
1989
fDate
6-11 Aug 1989
Firstpage
1879
Abstract
The authors present a method for analyzing the concentration distribution of the noncondensable gas in a cylindrical gas-loaded heat pipe on the basis of two-dimensional convective diffusion. It is shown that the exact solution can be formulated as an infinite series, which, by truncation, lends itself to many possible levels of approximation for including the effects of radial diffusion. In particular, the solution given by F.F. Peterson and C.L. Tien (see ASME J. Heat Transfer (1989)) is shown to account for these effects at the lowest level of approximation
Keywords
convection; diffusion in gases; heat pipes; pipe flow; gas distribution; gas-loaded heat pipe; noncondensable gas; radial diffusion; two-dimensional convective diffusion; Distribution functions; Equations; Heat engines; Heat transfer; Mechanical engineering; Research and development; Steady-state; Temperature distribution; Thermal conductivity; Thermal loading;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1989. IECEC-89., Proceedings of the 24th Intersociety
Conference_Location
Washington, DC
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IECEC.1989.74427
Filename
74427
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