Thermal conductivity of some heat pipe wicks

A synthesis of tortuosity and dispersion in effective thermal conductivity of porous media

“…(20a) is illustrated in Fig. 7, which indicates fairly good agreement among our prediction, Chang's prediction and the experimental data of the wire screens reported by VanSant and Malet [29]. This suggests that our general set of Eqs.…”

Effect of number of mesh layers and fluid loading on the performance of screen mesh wicked heat pipes

“…A number of models and correlations for the effective conductivity of wire screen mesh wicks have been developed. These models range from the empirical [10][11][12][13], semi-empirical [14,15], and the analytical [16,17]. The predictions from these models differ by an order of magnitude for the same wick structure.…”