Experimental study on heat transfer characteristics of high-temperature heat pipe

Abstract

High-temperature heat pipes have broad application prospects in terms of thermal protection of hypersonic aircraft and cooling of space nuclear reactors. In this paper, a high-temperature heat pipe heat transfer performance experimental platform is built to study the heat transfer performance of high-temperature heat pipes at different inclination angles. A heat transfer network model of high-temperature heat pipes containing NCG is established to analyze the influence of NCG. The results show that as the inclination angle of the heat pipe increases, the start-up time of the heat pipe does not change. The heat transfer performance is best when the inclination angle is 30?. High-temperature heat pipes containing NCG will reduce the effective length of the high-temperature heat pipe, increase the thermal resistance, and reduce the heat transfer performance. The high-temperature heat pipe analysis model with NCG established in this paper can be used to predict the heat transfer performance of high-temperature heat pipes containing NCG.