Study of Laser Heating and Heat Transfer of Porous Carbon Heat Exchanger

Abstract

  This research aims to unravel the mechanism of heat transfer phenomena in the flow inside a heat exchanger made of porous carbon, and to enhance the energy efficiency of the continuous wave laser propulsion system using heat exchanger. We measured the temperature distribution of the heat exchanger. Furthermore, we proposed a one dimensional model considering conduction and radiation heat transfer and verified it comparing the model and experimental result.