• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.3022-3029
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• 2015

This study presents experiments to visualize the internal flow and heat transfer characteristics of thermosyphon with immiscible of water-FC40 adopted as binary working fluid. Three different regimes depending on the amount of heat flux applied to the thermosyphon were observed: natural convection, pulse boiling, and continuous boiling. Boiling incipience took place in water, which has lower vapor pressure than FC40. During natural convection water was vaporized in liquid pool while liquid film flows were formed. On the other hand, meanwhile bubbles were generated in the liquid pool during pulse and continuous boiling, the binary working fluid of water-FC40 was observed as the mixture throughout a whole range of the thermosyphon.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.334-341
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• 2000

회전 히트파이프의 열 전달 특성은 내부 관벽에 형성되는 응축 액막 두께와 증발부로 귀한되는 응축액의 유동율에 의해 결정된다. 본 연구는 축 방향으로 그루브(groove)를 갖는 회전 히트파이프의 열 전달 성능에 대한 실험 연구로써, 그루브에 의한 효과를 파악하기 위해 2종류의 히트파이프를 제작하고 작동성은 시험을 수행하였다. 회전 히트파이프가 작동시, 원심력에 의해 그루브로 응축액의 유동을 촉진시키며, 따라서 응축부 벽면에 형성되는 액막 두께가 얇게 된다. 응축부에 그루브를 갖는 히트파이프의 열전달 계수는 풀 유동에서 2000~4000W/$m^2$$^{0}$ C, 환상 유동 영역에서 1500~2500W/$m^2$$^{0}$ C로써, 전체 원형단면을 갖는 히트파이프와 비교하여 약 1.5배 정도의 열저달 향상을 볼 수 있었으며, 열전달 한계는 약 40% 정도 향상되는 것으로 나타났다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.22 no.9
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• pp.1217-1228
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• 1998

In order to elucidate the operational characteristics of rotating heat pipes, the internal flow patterns and heat transfer performance are investigated. Flow patterns and its transition are studied with various rotational speeds by visualizing flows established inside a rotating tube. To verify those results of analysis, 2 heat pipes of the same geometries but fill charge rates of 7, 30% were manufactured and submitted to operating tests. Comparison of experimental results on heat transfer rate show a fairly good agreement with the analytical results. The analysis reveals that the optimum charge ratio is ranged in 4~7% depending on the quantity of thermal loads. but the heat pipe with 7% of fill charge ratio reached dry-out limitation at heat flux of $q^{{\prime}{\prime}}=6.2kW/m^2$ lower than that of analytic results. Transition of flow regime was well related to the correlation by Semena & Khmelev on transient centrifugal Froude Number Frc. But hysteresis phenomenon was observed in transition of flow regime, when the rotational speed was stepwisely changed in the way to undergo 1 cycle.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.763-772
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• 1998

The effects of an inserted coil on flow patterns and heat transport performance for a horizontal rotating heat pipe have been studied experimentally. Especially, the present study is to see an internally inserted helical coil inside a RHP would lead to the same kind of results as internal fins. Visualization test conducted for an acryl tube, charged water with at a volumetric rate of 20%. When the flow kept pool regime at a low RPM(less than 1,000 RPM), the movement of coil forced the water to flow in axial direction. But this pumping effect of coil disappeared, when the pool regime changed to annular one which could be created by increasing RPM. The pumping effects for RHP with an inserted coil resulted enhancement both in condensation heat transfer coefficient and heat transport limitation, as obtained in case of using internal fins. But all these effects became negligible in the range of higher RPM(above 1,000∼1,200) with the transition of flow regime to annular flow.