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The steady-state comparison method is used to determine the skeletal thermal conductivity of fiber-metal heat-pipe wicks.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 581–586, October, 1976.
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Semena, M.G., Kostornov, A.G., Zaripov, V.K. et al. Skeletal thermal conductivity of fiber-metal heat-pipe wicks. Journal of Engineering Physics 31, 1121–1125 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00861055
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