Developing headers to uniformly distribute two-phase (liquid/vapor) flow is a difficult but important aspect in the design of advanced two-phase thermal control systems. This paper documents experimental efforts toward developing a header to equally distribute the liquid flow to parallel legs of a two-phase heat exchanger. Models of various header concepts were built and tested using air/water mixtures to simulate two-phase liquid/vapor flow. Based on the results of these tests, a Fan Header concept was designed for a specific, parallel tube heat exchanger. At flow rates within the expected range of operation, this Fan Header distributed the liquid within 16% of the equally distributed value for inlet qualities up to 25%.


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    Title :

    Two-Phase Flow Header Tests


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:
    Samson, E. B. (author) / Stark, J. A. (author) / Grote, M. G. (author)

    Conference:

    Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems ; 1987



    Publication date :

    1987-07-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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