• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.1487-1492
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• 2004

For the present study, three heat pipes with different thickness of sintered metal wick were manufactured, and their operational performances, such as capillary limit and thermal resistance were tested and compared with theoretical predictions. Experimental results showed good agreement with those by the theoretical model, and that seemed to present that the sintering process we had developed in the present study was valid.