Research on Enhancing Heat Transfer of Flat Plate Loop Pulsating Heat Pipe

To research the method of enhancing heat transfer of flat plate loop pulsating heat pipe,the article compares the heat transfer character of the original heat pipe and the improved one by numerical simulation.Based on the VOF(volume of fluid) method,a three-dimensional unsteady mathematical model was developed to describe the vapor-liquid two-phase flow and phase change heat transfer in the flat plate loop pulsating heat pipe.The two-phase flow pattern transition and the temperature distribution in the flat plate loop pulsating heat pipe under different heat load conditions was numerically investigated using the developed model.The result shows that the heat transfer character of the improved heat pipe can be enhanced under high heat load condition.