Open AccessExperimental investigation and CFD analysis of a air cooled condenser heat pipe
Author(s) -
S. Annamalai,
R. Velraj
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
thermal science/thermal science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 2334-7163
pISSN - 0354-9836
DOI - 10.2298/tsci100331023a
Subject(s) - condenser (optics) , evaporator , computational fluid dynamics , mechanics , materials science , transient (computer programming) , work (physics) , steady state (chemistry) , heat pipe , thermodynamics , heat transfer , heat exchanger , physics , chemistry , computer science , optics , light source , operating system
In the present work a heat pipe of one meter length and 0.031m outer diameter was constructed and the experiments are conducted to determine the surface and vapour temperature at steady and transient conditions for two different input power in the evaporator section and cooling the condenser section by air. A CFD analysis was also carried and the results under steady state conditions are compared with the results obtained from the experiments and reported in this paper