Publication Date:
2011-08-19
Description:
The liquid drop radiator consists of many directed streams of hot liquid drops that are cooled by passing through space and are then collected for reuse. To facilitate the collection of the cooled liquid, a converging geometry might be useful. As the streams converge toward the collector, the density and optical thickness of the droplet cloud are increased. The increase of optical thickness in the flow direction is shown to reduce the local emittance along the length of the radiator.
Keywords:
FLUID MECHANICS AND HEAT TRANSFER
Type:
Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer (ISSN 0887-8722); 3; 46-52
Format:
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