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Heat Pipe Stability and Upstream Differencing

McGuinness, Mark

Conference
New Zealand Geothermal Workshop
Year
1988
Session
Reservoir Engineering
Language
English

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Abstract

Questions raised at the previous Geothermal workshop about the stability of heat pipes are answered here. The instability found in numerical experiments on vapour-dominated and liquid-dominated heat pipes is here associated with the numerical procedure of upstream differencing.

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