@Article{fdmp.2019.07812,
AUTHOR = {Chaoyi Wan},
TITLE = {A Numerical Investigation of the Thermal Performances of an Array of Heat Pipes for Battery Thermal Management},
JOURNAL = {Fluid Dynamics \& Materials Processing},
VOLUME = {15},
YEAR = {2019},
NUMBER = {4},
PAGES = {343--356},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/fdmp/v15n4/33878},
ISSN = {1555-2578},
ABSTRACT = {A   comparative   numerical   study   has   been   conducted   on   the   thermal   performance of a heat pipe cooling system considering several influential factors such as the  coolant  flow  rate,  the  coolant  inlet  temperature,  and  the  input  power.  A  comparison  between  numerical  data  and  results  available  in  the  literature  has  demonstrated  that  our  numerical  procedure  could  successfully  predict  the  heat  transfer  performance  of  the  considered heat pipe cooling system for a battery. Specific indicators such as temperature, heat flux, and pressure loss were extracted to describe the characteristics of such a system. On  the  basis  of  the  distributions of the temperature ratio of the battery surface, together with  the  heat  flux  and  the  streamlines  around  the  heat  pipe  condenser,  we  conclude  that  the low disturbance of the coolant is the cause of the temperature gradient along the fluid flow direction. },
DOI = {10.32604/fdmp.2019.07812}
}