| dc.description.abstract | A detailed overview of heat pipes is presented in this paper, including a historical
perspective, principles of operations, types of heat pipes, heat pipe performance
characteristics, heat pipe limitations, heat pipe frozen startup and shutdown, heat
pipe analysis and simulations, and various applications of heat pipes. Over the last
several decades, several factors have contributed to a major transformation in heat
pipe science and technology . The first major contribution was the development and
advances of new heat pipes, such as loop heat pipes, micro and miniature heat pipes,
and pulsating heat pipes. In addition, there are now many new commercial
applications that have helped contribute to the recent interest in heat pipes, especially
related to the fields of electronic cooling and energy. For example, several million heat
pipes are now manufactured each month since all modern laptops use heat pipes for
CPU cooling. Numerical modeling, analysis, and experimental simulation of heat
pipes have also significantly progressed due to a much greater understanding of
various physical phenomena in heat pipes , as well as advances in computational and
experimental methodologies. | en_US |
