Wickless heat pipes in microgravity

• Joel Plawsky ^[1]
  1. [1] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

     Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

     City of Troy, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Physics today, ISSN 0031-9228, Vol. 70, Nº. 9, 2017, págs. 82-83
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Counter intuitive phenomena arise from the interfacial and surface forces that operate in heat pipes. But we had to eliminate gravity to see them.