Experimental Investigation of the Maximum Heat Transport in Triangular Grooves英文教材.pdfVIP

Experimental Investigation of the Maximum Heat Transport H. B. Ma in Triangular Grooves Graduate ResearchAssistant. An experimental investigation was conducted and a testfacility constructed to mea- G. P. Peterson sure the capillary heat transport limit in small triangular grooves, similar to those Tenneco Professorand Head. used in micro heat pipes. Using methanol as the working fluid, the maximum heat FellowASME transport and unit effective area heat transport were experimentally determined for ten grooved plates with varying groove widths, but identical apex angles. The experi- Departmentof MechanicalEngineering, mental results indicate that there exists an optimum groove configuration, which TexasAM University, maximizes the capillary pumping capacity while minimizing the combined effects of College Station,TX 77843-3123 the capillary pumping pressure and the liquid viscous pressure losses. When com- pared with a previously developed analytical model, the experimental results indicate that the model can be used accurately to predict the heat transport capacity and maximum unit area heat transpor