Marc Hodes - Physical Applied Mathematics Seminar
| Dates: | 12 October 2022 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 14:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Department of Mathematics |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Current University students |
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Marc Hodes (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University) joins us for this in-person seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series
Title: Adiabatic section flow resistance of axial-groove heat pipes for slowly-varying meniscus curvature
Abstract: Heat pipes are essential in every modern computer because they are reliable and passive devices per their reliance on capillarity, have an effective thermal conductivity 10-to-100 times that of a solid copper rod of same diameter and possess a sufficiently-high maximum heat load. We develop a semi-analytical procedure to capture the effect of slowly varying (streamwise) meniscus curvature on the flow resistance of the adiabatic section of an axial-groove heat pipe (AGHP). The relevant small parameter is the pitch of the grooves divided by the length of the adiabatic section. Prescribed are the geometry of the AGHP, its orientation with respect to the gravity vector and relevant thermophysical properties (and, by implication, the capillary pressure driving the flows of liquid and vapor). Our requisite consideration of the evaporator and condenser sections of the AGHP invoke the standard assumption that the radius of the meniscus in them is a constant equal to that of the lands between menisci. The deviation of the meniscus geometry from a circular arc (relative to an origin at the radial center of the AGHP) in the adiabatic section is captured using a boundary perturbation, where a second small parameter is the protrusion angle between the arc defining a meniscus and that corresponding to the radius of an adjacent land. A local analysis ensures the singularities at the triple contact lines are resolved. Our procedure enables more accurate prediction of the component of the capillarity-limited maximum heat load in an AGHP related to its adiabatic section and the corresponding thermal resistance of this section.
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