TY - JOUR
TI - Experimental investigation and CFD analysis of a air cooled condenser heat pipe
AU - Annamalai Arul Selvan
AU - Ramalingam Velraj
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2011
VL - 15
IS - 3
SP - 759
EP - 772
PT - Article
AB - In the present work a heat pipe of one meter length and 0.031m outer diameter  was constructed and the experiments are conducted to determine the surface  and vapour temperature at steady and transient conditions for two different  input power in the evaporator section and cooling the condenser section by  air. A CFD analysis was also carried and the results under steady state  conditions are compared with the results obtained from the experiments and  reported in this paper.