Variable Conductance Heat Pipes

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Posted on Jul 28th, 2023

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.
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Posted on May 26th, 2023

Self-Venting Arterial Heat Pipes for Spacecraft Applications

Derek Beard, William G. Anderson, and Calin Tarau, International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (IECEC), Salt Lake City, UT, July 25-27, 2016
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Posted on Mar 30th, 2023

Thermal and Hydrodynamic Analysis of a Self-Purging hot Reservoir Variable Conductance Heat Pipe

Published in Applied Thermal Engineering, Volume 226, 25 May 2023, 120346 by Cho-Ning Huang, Kuan-Lin Lee, Calin Tarau, Yasuhiro Kamotani, and Chirag Kharangate.
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Posted on Jul 25th, 2022

Integrated Hot Reservoir Variable Conductance Heat Pipes with Improved Reliability

51st International Conference on Environmental Systems ICES-2022, 10-14 July 2022, St. Paul, Minnesota. Kuan-Lin Lee, Calin Tarau, William Anderson- ACT. Cho-Ning Huang, Chirag Kharangate and Yasuhiro Kamotani, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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Posted on Jul 21st, 2022

Non-Integrated Hot-Reservoir Variable Conductance Heat Pipes

51st International Conference on Environmental Systems, ICES-2022, 10-14 July 2022, St. Paul, Minnesota, Jeff Diebold, Calin Tarau, Joshua Smay, Timothy Hahn, and Ryan Spangler
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Posted on Jul 20th, 2021

Development of a Cold Plate for Spatial and Temporal Temperature Uniformity

Presented at the 50th International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES) 2021 by Michael C. Ellis, Elizabeth K. Seber and George Elias.
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Posted on Apr 12th, 2021

Computational Fluid Dynamics Model for a Variable Conductance Thermosyphon

Cho-Ning Huang, Kuan-Lin Lee, Calin Tarau, Yasuhiro Kamotani and Chirag R. Kharangate, "Computational Fluid Dynamics Model for a Variable Conductance Thermosyphon", Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, vol 25, 2021.
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Posted on Aug 19th, 2020

Advanced Hot Reservoir Variable Conductance Heat Pipes for Planetary Landers

Kuan-Lin Lee et al. , International Conference on Environmental Systems, ICES-2020-579. (2020)
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Posted on Jul 31st, 2019

3D Printed Thermal Management System for the Next Generation of Gallium Nitride-Based Solid State Power Amplifiers

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