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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