Design considerations when using edge-mounted heat pipes in space radiators

Physics & Astronomy

• spacecraft radiators 100%
• heat pipes 72%
• fins 63%
• Viking orbiter 2 20%
• SNAP 19 19%
• Viking orbiter 1 19%
• temperature distribution 14%
• charts 10%
• flat plates 9%
• generators 7%
• differential equations 7%
• heat transfer 6%
• evaluation 5%
• energy 2%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Heat pipes 59%
• Radiators 58%
• Temperature distribution 28%
• Radioisotopes 21%
• Energy balance 18%
• Finite difference method 17%
• Differential equations 15%
• Satellites 13%
• Heat transfer 11%
• Hot Temperature 8%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• pipe 41%
• finite difference method 18%
• energy balance 16%
• radionuclide 15%
• heat transfer 15%
• temperature 13%
• distribution 12%
• evaluation 8%
• test 6%
• parameter 6%