Affiliation:
1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G8
Abstract
Consideration is given to natural convection in a cranked, tubular thermosyphon oriented in various ways with respect to the vertical. Experiments on a small-bore, water-filled tube are used to investigate three orientational effects: by tilting in a vertical plane containing the tubes; by incremental rotation about the axis of the horizontal connecting tube; and by incremental rotation about a horizontal axis parallel to the thermosyphon tube axes. The results reveal similarities between the cranked and linear thermosyphons. In general, horizontal alignments are found to produce higher heat transfer rates.
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science
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