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      <journal-title-group><journal-title>SET Proceedings</journal-title></journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2978-4387</issn>
      <publisher><publisher-name>Caravel Press</publisher-name></publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.65582/set.2015.120</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2015.120</article-id>
      <title-group><article-title>Numerical investigation of the thermal performance of water based closed loop oscillating heat pipe (CLOHP)</article-title></title-group>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Yeboah</surname><given-names>Siegfried</given-names></name>
        <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
        <email>Siegfried.yeboah@nottinghamedu.cn</email>
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      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name><surname>Darkwa</surname><given-names>Jo</given-names></name>
        <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/>
        <email>J.Darkwa@nottingham.ac.uk</email>
      </contrib>
      <aff id="aff1">The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, 199Taikang East Road, Ningbo China</aff>
      <aff id="aff2">The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK</aff>
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      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub"><day>06</day><month>07</month><year>2016</year></pub-date>
      <volume>14</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <isbn publication-format="electronic">978-0-85358-314-1</isbn>
      <fpage>328</fpage>
      <lpage>340</lpage>
      <self-uri xlink:href="https://caravelpress.com/proceedings/set/papers/2015.120"/>
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        <date date-type="received"><string-date>6 July 2016</string-date></date>
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      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>© 2015 Copyright WSSET</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2016</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract><p>The enhanced capabilities of Oscillating/Pulsating Heat Pipes (OHPs/PHPs) are often curtailed by a gamut of factors that affects their optimum thermal performance. These factors ranging from their design parameters to operating conditions may not make it feasible to develop experimental prototypes through trial and error as optimum thermal performance cannot be ascertained a priori. In this study, an Eulerian Volume of Fluid (VOF) model coupled with a Level Set Method has been used to numerically investigate the thermal performance of a five-turn water based CLOHP with volume fractions 0.3, 0.5 and 0.7 in vertical and horizontal modes. The capabilities of this computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach to help predict the optimum thermal performance of OHP/PHPs is well established in literature. A summary of the results from this investigations show that more convective heat transfer rate occurs from the liquid phase than from the vapour phase. Also orientation was found to significantly influence pressure distribution within the CLOHPs. Finally it was observed that thermal resistance was significantly influenced by volume fraction/fill ratio rather than by orientation of the device.</p></abstract>
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        <kwd>Closed Loop Oscillating Heat Pipe</kwd>
        <kwd>Volume of Fluid (VOF)</kwd>
        <kwd>Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)</kwd>
        <kwd>Thermal Performance</kwd>
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      <conference>
        <conf-date>25 to 27 August 2015</conf-date>
        <conf-name>14th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies</conf-name>
        <conf-acronym>SET2015</conf-acronym>
        <conf-num>14</conf-num>
        <conf-loc>Nottingham, United Kingdom</conf-loc>
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