SET Proceedings 2978-4387 Caravel Press 10.65582/set.2006.085 2006.085 Design and Simulation of Visual Miniature Loop Heat Pipe QuYan ChengLin LuanTao ZinnaStefano MarengoMarco Center for Space Thermal Science, Shandong University, Jinan, China LSRM-Microfluidics Lab, University of Bergamo, Dalmine (BG), Italy 30082006 5 978-88-89884-05-8 1 6 30 August 2006 © 2006 Copyright WSSET 2006

A miniature loop heat pipe (mLHP) with a glass condenser was designed and manufactured. A stress analysis of compensation chamber/evaporator and glass condenser was carried out to confirm strength of loop heat pipe using the software MSC NASTRAN. Results indicate that this new loop heat pipe may meet the design requirements and appear to work well. A performance analysis was made for the heat transfer and the fluid flow characteristics inside the loop heat pipe using the commercial software SINDA/FLUINT. To some extent this miniaturized loop heat pipe help the visualization of phase change phenomena.

 loop heat pipe heat transfer stress analysis flow visualization 30 August to 1 September 2006 5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies SET2006 5 Vicenza, Italy