Performance Enhancement of
Revolving Heat Pipes
I have been involved in an on-going research project with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Below are the references to the archival publications related to that research. In addition, I have provided the abstracts to each publication.
Castle, R., Thomas, S., and Yerkes, K., 2000, "The Effect of Working Fluid Inventory on the Performance of Revolving Helically-Grooved Heat Pipes," Proceedings of the ASME National Heat Transfer Conference, Pittsburg, PA, Paper No. NHTC2000-12268," ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 123, pp. 120-129.
Powerpoint presentation I gave at the National Heat Transfer Conference (3.2 Mb)
Klasing, K., Thomas, S., and Yerkes, K., 1999, "Prediction of the Operating Limits of Revolving Helically-Grooved Heat Pipes," ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 121, pp. 213-217.
Thomas, S., Klasing, K., and Yerkes, K., 1998, "The Effects of Transverse Acceleration-Induced Body Forces on the Capillary Limit of Helically-Grooved Heat Pipes," ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 120, pp. 441-451.
Thomas, S., and Yerkes, K., 1997, "Quasi-Steady State Performance of a Heat Pipe Subjected to Transient Acceleration Loadings," AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 11, pp. 306-309.
This link shows some photographs of the Centrifuge Table Testbed at AFRL where this work was done.