HEAT EXCHANGE OF AN EXPERIMENTAL MODULE WITH HEAT PIPES 
UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF THERMOVACUUM TESTS

V. A. Burakov,a V. V. Elizarov,a V. P. Kozhukhov,b 
E. N. Korchagin,b and I. V. Shcherbakovaa

UDC 629.78.048.7.001.24

New dynamic thermal mathematical models in lumped and 
distributed-lumped parameters, computational algorithms, software, 
results of numerical calculations, and a comparison with experiment 
have been presented for the heat exchange of an experimental module 
in the form of a three-layer honeycomb panel with uncontrolled 
low-temperature heat pipes in different regimes of thermovacuum tests 
carried out under ground conditions.

aScientific-Research Institute 
of Mathematics and Mechanics at Tomsk State University; 
bAcademician M. F. Reshetnev Science and Production Association 
of Applied Mechanics, Zheleznogorsk, Russia; email: bva@niipmm.tsu.su. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 76, No. 2, pp. 
145-150, March-April, 2003. Original article submitted December 
21, 2001; revision submitted June 6, 2002.