Thermal performance of a wicked heat pipe with a finned condenser

Experiments were performed to evaluate the effect of fins at the condenser section of copper-water wicked heat pipes using three different fin spacings. The heat pipes were heated at one end and the condenser section was convectively cooled at different air velocities in a wind tunnel. An existing network model for wicked heat pipes was extended to incorporate the effects of fins at the condenser end of the heat pipe. The model takes into …