Heat Pipe with Accurate Liquid and Gas Properties
Application ID: 90311
Heat pipes are designed to transfer heat efficiently through vaporization, mass transfer, and condensation of a working fluid. They are found in a wide variety of applications where thermal control is of importance, with cooling of electronics being a prominent example.
Inside a heat pipe, the temperature difference between the hot and cold sides together with the temperature dependence of the vapor pressure, induce a pressure difference across the vapor chamber. The pressure difference, in turn, drives the vapor from the hot to the cold side. The vaporization acts as a heat sink at the vapor–wick interface at the hot side, and conversely, the condensation as a heat source, at the cold side. This model demonstrates how the laminar flow in the vapor chamber of the heat pipe can be coupled to the liquid phase transport through the porous wick, and how thermodynamic properties of water can be obtained from the database in the Liquid & Gas Properties module. The importance of vapor transport is compared to the conductive heat transfer in the pipe wall. The former dominates the latter by several orders of magnitude.
This model example illustrates applications of this type that would nominally be built using the following products:
however, additional products may be required to completely define and model it. Furthermore, this example may also be defined and modeled using components from the following product combinations:
- COMSOL Multiphysics® and
- either the バッテリデザインモジュール, 化学反応工学モジュール, 燃料電池&電解槽モジュール, or 液体&気体特性モジュール and
- either the バッテリデザインモジュール, CFDモジュール, 化学反応工学モジュール, 腐食解析モジュール, 電気化学モジュール, 電気めっきモジュール, 燃料電池&電解槽モジュール, 伝熱モジュール, 多孔質媒体流れモジュール, or 地下水流モジュール and
- either the バッテリデザインモジュール, CFDモジュール, 化学反応工学モジュール, 腐食解析モジュール, 電気化学モジュール, 電気めっきモジュール, 燃料電池&電解槽モジュール, マイクロフルイディクスモジュール, ポリマー流れモジュール, 多孔質媒体流れモジュール, or 地下水流モジュール
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