A heat shield called the thermal protection system (TPS) is an important structure in
hypersonic vehicles as it prevents hot air from entering vehicles and potential impacts from …

Heat pipes offer high effective heat transfer in a purely passive way. Other specific properties
of heat pipes, like temperature homogenization, can be also reached. In this paper, a …

Embedded propulsion systems will allow future hypersonic aircraft to reach amazing levels
of performance. However, their peculiar small-radius air-intake leading edges pose serious …

A high temperature special-shaped heat pipe (HTSSHP) coupling the flat plate heat pipe
(FHP) and cylindrical heat pipes (CHPs), respectively as the thermal receiver and heat …

Heat pipes transfer heat via phase transformation of the working fluid, where the working
fluid will keep the temperature constant and absorb or release a large amount of latent heat …

One of the main challenges for the hypersonic vehicle is its thermal protection, more
specifically, the cooling of its leading edge. To investigate the feasibility of a platelet heat …

For reusable high-speed vehicles, the damage accumulation in heat transfer paths during
multitudes of missions leads to resistance augment, performance undermining, and even …

Shock waves and expansion fan hierarchies in complex flows induced by transonic
evacuated tube maglev transportation (ETMT) cause a unique thermal environment, which …

Non-ablative thermal protection materials are subjected to localized high-density heat flux,
facing extreme temperatures and uneven temperature distribution. Heat dredging is …

The thermal response of heat pipes is commonly investigated under different inclinations in
static state by increasing the heat load at the evaporator zone until the pipes dry out. In …