Applications and numerical simulations of Heat Pipe technologies in space thermal control system

作者：Du Wenjing; Cheng Lin^*; Luan Tao; Xin Gongming

来源：Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2008, 8(7-8): 454-460.

DOI：10.1504/PCFD.2008.021322

• numerical simulations
• heat transfer
• HP
• heat pipes
• LHP
• loop heat pipes
• thermal control

A space detector is sampled to introduce applications and thermal control performances of conventional and novel Heat Pipes (HPs). The internal two-phase change process brings HPs excellent heat transfer properties and complicated numerical calculations. Based on space design experience and experimental researches, numerical simulations of HPs can be simplified when they are serving as space thermal control hardware. Simplification is accepted in this paper and explored through a practical thermal control system design. Related thermal vacuum tests are performed to verify simplified model. Results show such assumption can bring acceptable results and less computation time to a real application.

• 出版日期2008
• 单位山东大学