@InProceedings{SantosBGBMKCCR:2014:TUHePi,
author = "Santos, Nadjara dos and Bertoldo J{\'u}nior, Jorge and Genaro,
Gino and Batista Neto, Jos{\'e} Ant{\^o}nio and Mendes, Geraldo
Orlando and Kchoukina, Olga Viktorovna and C{\^a}ndido, Pedro
Ant{\^o}nio and Costa, Rafael Lopes and Rodrigues, Marcelo
Petry",
affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto
Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de
Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas
Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
(INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and
{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto
Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de
Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
title = "TUCA heat pipes experiment",
booktitle = "Proceedings...",
year = "2014",
organization = "International Conference Heat Pipes for Space Applications, 2.",
keywords = "Heat Pipe.",
abstract = "A heat pipe (HP) experiment named TUCA (acronyms for {"}Tubo de
Calor{"}, in Portu-guese), to be probably flown on ITASAT
University satellite is proposed. The experiment consists of an
axially-grooved aluminum acetone-charged heat pipe positioned at
the center of a spin-stabilized satellite along its spin axis. Two
L-shaped saddles provide thermal cou-pling with the top and bottom
satellite panels; the temperature difference between these two
panels yields necessary driving gradient temperature for the HP
operating. Special metallic plates at the HP interfaces (doublers)
provide the HP input-output heat rates. High precision thermistors
installed along the HP length allow the detection of any
Non-Condensable Gases (NCG) blockage expansion. A developed
SINDA/FLUINT Thermal Desktop® TUCA ther-mal model is used to
predict the HP behavior under flight conditions and for
elaboration of thermal vacuum tests specification.",
conference-location = "Moscow",
conference-year = "2014",
label = "lattes: 1120380722483382 3 SantosBGBMKCCR:2014:TUHePi",
language = "en",
targetfile = "Santos_TUCA.pdf",
urlaccessdate = "28 mar. 2024"
}