SODI
13 November 2016
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Graphene
13 October 2016

OPTHAE

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Subject
Designing and testing (thermally and mechanically) of a miniature condenser for an aerospace application.
Start/end dates
February 2013 – December 2017 (under discussion)
Description
We are developing a miniature condenser for a Capillary Pumped Loop to cool an actuator of an airliner. We investigate three condenser designs: plan tubes, microfins and microchannels.
Results
We have analysed numerically different microchannel condensers and have chosen semi-circular and square cross sections as the most promising designs. We also used heat transfer and pressure drop correlations to design a plain and microfins condensers. We are now moving to detailed design of the three condenser designs.

An experimental set-up has been constructed in order to study convective condensation at low mass fluxes inside differently shaped and different cross section tubes with visualization.

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