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Characteristics of diode-type heat pipe in forward mode and in reverse mode of operation

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Results of an experimental and theoretical study are reported pertaining to a diodetype heat pipe with a liquid plug of the vapor channel in the reverse mode of operation.

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  1. Semicentennial-of-Great-Socialist-October-Revolution Kiev Polytechnic Institute, USSR

    M. G. Semena, V. M. Baturkin & B. M. Rassamakin

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 935–942, December, 1982.

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Semena, M.G., Baturkin, V.M. & Rassamakin, B.M. Characteristics of diode-type heat pipe in forward mode and in reverse mode of operation. Journal of Engineering Physics 43, 1353–1359 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00824793

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