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axial heat transfer and operational envelope for, characteristics of wicks for,
Characteristics of Wicks
circulation and axial heat transfer in, introduction to two-phase loop with capillary pump, selection of working fluid for, start-up and control of, temperature distribution and radial heat flux in,
Heat pumping, relation to heat exchanger network design, Heat storage (see Regenerators and thermal energy storage) entropy generation in, Heat transfer: Heat transfer coefficient: Heat transfer media, Heat transfer salt, Heat transfer regimes: Heat of vaporization, Heated cavity reflectometer, Heating media, for reboilers, Heavy water, physical properties of, Heggs, P J, Helical coils of circular cross section: Helical coils of rectangular cross section, Helical inserts, for enhancement of heat transfer in boiling, Helium: Helmholtz reciprocity principle, in radiative heat transfer, Henry, J A R, Henry-Fauske model, for critical two-phase flow, Henry's law, for partial pressure, Heptadecane: Heptadecene: Heptane: 1-Heptanol: 1-Heptene: Herman, K W, Hermes, C L L, Heterogeneous conveyance in horizontal pipes, Heterogeneous nucleation in boiling, Hewitt, G F Hexachloroethane (Refrigerant 116): Hexacyclopentane, superheated vapor properties, Hexadecane: Hexadecene: 1,5-Hexadiene: Hexagonal cells, in free convection, Hexamethylbenzene: Hexane: Hexanoic acid: 1-Hexanol: 1-Hexene: Hexylbenzene: Hexylcyclohexane: Hexylcyclopentane, Hicks equation, for fixed-bed pressure drop, High pressure closures, ASME VIII code guidance for, High-chrome steels, thermal and mechanical properties, High-finned tubes, correlations for single-phase heat transfer in flow over, Hills, P D Hohlraum cavity, Holdup, in liquid-liquid flow, Holland, guide to national practice for mechanical design of heat exchangers, Homogeneous condensation (fog formation), Homogeneous model: Homogeneous nucleation: Honeycombs: Hopkins, D, Horizontal condensers: Horizontal cylinders: Horizontal layers, of fluid, free convection heat transfer in, Horizontal pipes: Horizontal shell-side evaporator, Horizontal surfaces: Horizontal thermosiphon reboilers: Horizontal tube-side evaporator, Horizontal tubes: Hottel's rule, in absorption of radiation by gases, Hsu criterion, for onset of nucleate boiling, Hybrid cooling towers, Hydraulic conveyance: Hydraulic expansion, of tubes into tube sheets in shell-and-tube heat exchangers, Hydraulic turbine, lost work in, Hydraulic resistance, in flow of supercritical fluids, Hydraulically smooth surface, Hydrazine: Hydrocarbons: Hydrodynamic entrance length, in single-phase flow in ducts, Hydrogen: Hydrogen bromide: Hydrogen chloride: Hydrogen cyanide: Hydrogen fluoride: Hydrogen iodide: Hydrogen peroxide: Hydrogen sulfide: Hydrostatic testing of shell-and-tube heat exchangers, Hysteresis:
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Characteristics of Wicks

DOI 10.1615/hedhme.a.000315

3.10.6 Characteristics of wicks

D. Chisholm

The original wick structures used in heat pipes were materials such as woven cloth, glass fiber, porous metal, and wire mesh. These wicks will be referred to as homogeneous wicks, to distinguish them from wicks made up of combinations of these materials, which will be referred to as composite wicks.

Figure 1a illustrates diagrammatically the use of homogeneous wicks. The wick is attached to the wall of the heat pipe in such a manner as to ensure good contact between the wick and the wall in the regions where heat transfer occurs. Good contact helps to maintain satisfactory heat transfer rates from and to the heat pipe wall. Channels in the wall, as illustrated in Figure 1b, have also been used: a further development is to cover the channel with a fine screen as illustrated in Figure 1c. One advantage of this arrangement is that it reduces entrainment of the liquid flowing in the wick by the vapor flowing from the evaporator section of the heat pipe to the condensing section. More important, the screen can be of very small pore size to give high capillary driving pressure without significantly increasing the flow resistance in the channels. Kemme (1966) tested the arrangements shown in Figure 1b and Figure 1c and found a threefold improvement in the performance of the heat pipe with the latter arrangement.

Some other arrangements of wick are shown in Figure 1d-h. Figure 1h is an example of a wick with an artery; the artery provides low-resistance flow paths to reduce the pressure drop in the liquid. Figure 1e-g, also provides low-resistance flow paths for the liquid.

In Figure 1e-h, the low-resistance flow path or artery is adjacent to the wall, which can have the disadvantage that boiling may occur within it. Figure 2 illustrates in cross-section some arrangements Jankers-Flutzeug-und Motorenwerke GmbH (1972) of arterial heat pipes that avoid this problem.

Figure 1 Geometric arrangement of wicks

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