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Results of investigating the mechanism of vapor-forming processes relating to wicks of low-temperature heat pipes

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The authors have studied the laws of the heat transfer mechanism in boiling in mesh heat pipe wicks. It is shown that at high heat flux density in the precrisis regime one can stop bubble boiling with transition to evaporation from the surfaces of the menisci.

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  1. Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 12–19, January, 1991.

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Antonenko, V.A., Kudritskii, G.R. Results of investigating the mechanism of vapor-forming processes relating to wicks of low-temperature heat pipes. Journal of Engineering Physics 60, 8–13 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00871604

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