{"id":293879,"date":"2023-07-19T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-emulate-a-heat-pipe-in-transient-thermal-analysis\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T13:50:08","slug":"how-to-emulate-a-heat-pipe-in-transient-thermal-analysis","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-emulate-a-heat-pipe-in-transient-thermal-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"How to emulate a Heat Pipe in Transient Thermal Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello! Thank you for your time. I am coming back to Ansys after about 2 years, and I had previously only dealt with structural analysis. Currently, I am trying to do some thermal analysis to see at what point in time heat pipes can stabilize the temperature of a model experiencing a constant heat flux on one of its surfaces. For the heat pipes, I used copper as a base material while increasing the Isotropic Thermal Conductivity to 4000 from its original value of 400, insulating all surfaces but the very bulb to try and mimic the heat flow towards that endpoint.<\/p>\n

I am unsure if this is the best way to mimic a heat pipe, however. Would it be better to try and create a heat pipe in Fluent or CFX to transfer in, or are there other methods I can use solely in the Transient Thermal module? I don’t need it to be highly accurate, but I would like some degree of assurance that I am obtaining a reasonable result. Thank you again for your time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-293879","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-heat-pipe-2","topic-tag-transient-thermal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t