抄録
Heat and mass transfer of an evaporator of a loop heat pipe (LHP), which had a liquid-vapor interface inside a porous wick, was analyzed by a three-dimensional model. Pore network model (PNM) was used to simulate the two-phase flow in the porous structure with a distribution of pore radius. The calculation includes two behaviors of phase distribution in a wick: the wick saturated with liquid fully and unsaturated with liquid and vapor. The evaporator heat-transfer coefficient as a function of heat flux had local maximum. The relation between the heat-transfer coefficient and liquid-vapor phase distribution in the wick were discussed.
