A Heat Pipe Design for ARIES-ST Center Post

ARIES Electronic Project Meeting
December 4, 1998

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Limitation of the heat pipes

  1. - Capillary


  2. - Viscous


  3. - Sonic


  4. - Entertainment


  5. - Boiling (Heat Flux)

Material of the pipe/wick is copper and
the water is the working fluid


Fig. 2. A design for the ARIES-ST Center Post Heat Pipe.