Unstable Heat Pipes
- Conference
- New Zealand Geothermal Workshop
- Year
- 1987
- Session
- General
- Language
- English
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Abstract
Heat pipes are an important feature of models of vapor-dominated geothermal reservoirs. Numerical experiments reveal that a vapordominated heat pipe is unstable if pressure controlled at shallow levels. This instability is discussed in physical terms,and some implications for geothermal reservoirs are considered.
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