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The THROHPUT Code Package

Michael L. Hall

January 20, 2010

The THROHPUT Code Package models the transient thermohydraulic behavior of heat pipes. Further development of the code is taking place under the CÆSAR Code Package.


Presentations and Articles:

Transient Thermohydraulic Heat Pipe Modeling: Incorporating THROHPUT into the CÆSAR Environment
A presentation by Michael L. Hall that was made at the Space Technology and Applications International Forum in Albuquerque, NM on February 5 2003, is available in PostScript, PDF and HTML formats (LA-UR-03-1762).

Transient Thermohydraulic Heat Pipe Modeling: Incorporating THROHPUT into the CÆSAR Environment
A paper by Michael L. Hall, in "Proceedings of the Space Technology and Applications International Forum", Albuquerque, NM, February 2-6 2003, is available in PostScript, PDF and HTML formats (LA-UR-02-7510).

Transient Heat Pipe Modeling Using THROHPUT
A presentation by Michael L. Hall that was made to the High Temperature Heat Pipe Modeling and Experimental Techniques Experts Meeting at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Albany, NY on July 20, 1998 is available in PostScript and PDF formats.

Status Report On The THROHPUT Transient Heat Pipe Modeling Code
A paper by Michael L. Hall, Michael A. Merrigan and Robert S. Reid in "Proceedings of the Eleventh Symposium on Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion", Albuquerque, NM, January 9-13 1994, pp. 965-970, is available in PostScript and PDF formats (LA-UR-93-3837; CONF-940101-17)

"A Sensitivity Study of the Effects of Evaporation/Condensation Accommodation Coefficients on Transient Heat Pipe Modeling"
A paper by Michael L. Hall and J. Michael Doster, in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 33(3):465-481, March 1990, is available in PDF format (scanned).

Numerical Modeling of the Transient Thermohydraulic Behavior of High Temperature Heat Pipes for Space Reactor Applications
A Ph.D. thesis by Michael L. Hall (1988), North Carolina State University, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Raleigh, NC, is available from UMI's Dissertation Express (search for order number 8815501). Direct link.

Related Articles:
The seminal paper on negative liquid pressure:
Marcellin Berthelot (1850) "Sur Quelques Phénomènes de Dilatation Forcée Des Liquides" (A Few Forced Expansion Phenomena of Liquids), Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 30:232-237, 1850. An English translation is available in PostScript and PDF formats.


Related Sites:
Experimental heat pipe work done at LANL is documented on the Los Alamos Heat Pipe Home Page.

Michael L. Hall