Technical Papers

Two-Phase Thermal Switch for Lunar Lander and Rover Thermal Management

Presented at the International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES) 2023, in Calgary, Alberta, July 16-20, 2023 by ACT Engineer Nathan Van Velson.

Development of Flight Demonstration Hot Reservoir Variable Conductance Heat Pipes for Microgravity Testing and Future Lunar Landers and Surface Systems

Presented at the International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES) 2023, in Calgary, Alberta, July 16-20, 2023 by ACT Engineer Kuan-Lin Lee.

3D Printed Wicks for Loop Heat Pipes

Presented at the International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES) 2023, in Calgary, Alberta, July 16-20, 2023 by ACT Engineers Rohit Gupta, Chen-Hua Chien, and William Anderson.

Efficient Poisson’s Ratio Evaluation of Weft-Knitted Auxetic Metamaterials

Published in the special issue of Textiles: Advances in Technical Textiles, by Kuan-Lin Lee and Srujan Rokkam.

Pulsating Heat Pipe and Embedded Heat Pipe Heat Spreaders for Modular Electronics Cooling

Published in the Cast Studies in Thermal Engineering Journal by Sai Kiran Hota, Kuan-Lin Lee, Brett Leitherer, George Elias, Greg Hoeschele, and Srujan Rokkam.

Demonstration of CTE-Matched Two-Phase Minichannel Heat Sink

Presented at the 22ND IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITHERM), May 30 – June 2nd by ACT engineers Oveis Shaeri, Chien-Hua Chen, and Maksym Demydovych.

Progress on 3D Printed Loop Heat Pipes

Gupta, R., Chen, C-H., and Anderson, W.G., “Progress on 3D Printed Loop Heat Pipes.” Proceedings of the 50th International Conference on Environmental Systems, ICES-2021-154, 2021.

Development of a 3D Printed Loop Heat Pipe

Bradley Richard et al., 49th International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES), Boston, Massachusetts, July 7-11 2019

An Innovative Volatile Organic Compound Incinerator

Joel Crawmer et al., International Thermal Treatment Technologies (IT3), Houston, TX, March 6-8 2018