Mauro Mameli
University of Pisa
Italy
Title: Thermal management in space: Passive two-phase heat transfer technologies
Biography
Biography: Mauro Mameli
Abstract
Thermal Management systems are almost ubiquitous: they are found in electronic devices, transportation, battery cooling and households in general. The demand for higher performances, sustainability, and efficient thermal control in different acceleration environments (from hyper gravity to microgravity conditions) pushes the researchers to develop a new generation of passive two-phase flow systems. However, the development of reliable devices, calls for a thorough understanding of fundamental principles and their modelling. In the past decades, several wickless two-phase passive systems born to meet a wide range of industrial requests: indeed, such technologies, like Pulsating Heat Pipes (PHPs), have an extremely high potential in terms of simplicity and, consequently, cost effectiveness. The present lecture provide a chronicles of the hyper gravity/microgravity experimental and numerical activities carried through by the International team on Pulsating Heat Pipes in order to push the technological readiness level of such devices with particular attention to the space applications.