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Operating results are presented for heat pipes where the transport of a heat-transfer agent is caused by reciprocating motion of the pipe itself. The experimental results are generalized with the aid of a correlation.
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V. P. Isachenko et al., Heat Transfer [in Russian], Énergiya, Moscow (1965).
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 773–776, November, 1978.
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Gaigalis, V.A., Asakavichyus, I.P. & Éva, V.K. A reciprocating heat pipe. Journal of Engineering Physics 35, 1265–1268 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00859672
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00859672