A review on Mechanism of fluid flow and Transfer of Heat in Closed Loop Pulsating Heat Pipe

¹ Assitant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India
² Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, JNTU College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India
³ M Tech TE Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India

^* Corresponding author: venkatasureshj@gmail.com

Abstract

Now-a-days the researchers and people are moving towards such an innovation which meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In such innovations Pulsating heat pipe is one of the technology which started in 1990 by Akachi. Pulsating heat pipe is a heat transfer device which has an effective heat transfer capability. The researchers had done many experimental and theoretical investigations, but they haven’t got the complete knowledge about it because of its complex operational mechanism which consists of hydrodynamic and thermodynamic coupling effect. This paper gives a brief idea on the thermo-hydro dynamic characteristics of this device. The brief idea will be on internal diameter, cross-section of the tube and the amount of working fluid in system. In addition to all these the number of turns in device and thermo-physical properties of working fluid which leads to determine the thermal behavior. The motto of this paper is to make review paper on recent past years on papers which used refrigerants as working fluids and its fluid flow mechanism and finally lead upcoming researchers to have basic idea and future scope of device.