Hi, thank you for great tutorial. I have a question regarding operation of heat pipe. I am trying to design and optimize cooling of an electric motor using heat pipes. If I understand correctly, thermal resistance of heat pipes describes how much temperature will fall from heat in faces to heat out faces. So for example, if 50 W enters heat in faces and thermal resistance is 0.1 K/W, at the heat out faces, temperature should be 5 K lower than at the entrance of heat in heat pipes (assuming all heat goes through heat pipes). Please correct me if I am wrong. When I change thermal resistance keeping everything else the same, temperature difference between in faces and out faces does not change, I cannot figure it out why this is the case. I define heat pipe as a solid body, made of copper material. I define heat in faces, heat out faces, thermal resistance of 0.1 K/W and something does not work properly. If you have any suggestions please share with me, thank you and have a nice day. Marko
Hi, thank you for great tutorial.
I have a question regarding operation of heat pipe. I am trying to design and optimize cooling of an electric motor using heat pipes.
If I understand correctly, thermal resistance of heat pipes describes how much temperature will fall from heat in faces to heat out faces. So for example, if 50 W enters heat in faces and thermal resistance is 0.1 K/W, at the heat out faces, temperature should be 5 K lower than at the entrance of heat in heat pipes (assuming all heat goes through heat pipes). Please correct me if I am wrong. When I change thermal resistance keeping everything else the same, temperature difference between in faces and out faces does not change, I cannot figure it out why this is the case. I define heat pipe as a solid body, made of copper material. I define heat in faces, heat out faces, thermal resistance of 0.1 K/W and something does not work properly. If you have any suggestions please share with me, thank you and have a nice day.
Marko