Applications and numerical simulations of Heat Pipe technologies in space thermal control system. (26th November 2008)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Du, Wenjing; Cheng, Lin; Luan, Tao; Xin, Gongming
• Is Part Of: Progress in computational fluid dynamics. Volume 8:Number 7/8(2008)
• Page Start: 454
• Page End: 460
• Publication Date: 2008-11-26
• Subjects: numerical simulation -- heat transfer -- heat pipes -- LHP -- loop heat pipes -- spacecraft thermal control -- space detectors -- thermal vacuum tests -- International Space Station -- ISS; Fluid dynamics -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Fluid dynamics -- Mathematics -- Periodicals; 620.10640285
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1468-4349

Abstract

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.