Condensation heat transfer on vertical axis, axisymmetric, rotating surfaces
- Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH (United States)
Rotating heatpipes make use of centrifugal effects to return id from the condenser to the evaporator without a wick. Daniels and al-Jumaily, Maezawa et al., and Marto used a Nusselt-type analysis for heat pipes rotating about a horizontal axis. Faghri et al. analyzed the vapor flow in a horizontal rotating heat pipe with a constant radius by numerically solving the momentum and energy equations. In a related area, condensation on rotating disks and cones has been modeled and similarity solutions found for temperature, tangential velocity, and pressure fields that are independent of the radius. Nandapurkar and Beatty experimentally determined average heat transfer coefficients for condensation on vertical axis rotating disks. 10 refs., 4 figs.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 478491
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 117, Issue 3; Other Information: PBD: Aug 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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