Valéry Mikhailovich Kiseev | Ural State University - Russia

• Grant number: 08/00397-0
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Duration: October 15, 2008 - October 14, 2009
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Aerospace Engineering - Aerospace Systems
• Principal Investigator: Issamu Muraoka
• Grantee: Issamu Muraoka
• Visiting researcher: Valery Mikhailovich Kiseev
• Visiting researcher institution: Ural State University (USU), Russia
• Host Institution: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE). Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (Brasil). São José dos Campos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

One of the objectives of the CONTER P&D project, in execution at INPE, is the development of two and three-phase thermal control devices with space qualification. Many prototypes have already been fabricated and tested, including tests in the space environmental conditions. Meanwhile space qualification involves requirements of high reliability and long lifetime. The technological processes that guarantee the space qualification have not been completely developed yet. The visiting researcher, that has long experience in these devices, will contribute mainly in the assistance in the technological issues aiming space qualification. His main activities will be: a) revision of the processes of fabrication and assembling, that are used presently; b) assistance in the definition of the test procedures, exploring the features of the test bench, that is in final phase of installation; c) assistance in the definition of the procedure of filling the device with working fluid and revision of the design of the filling station; d) development of mathematical model of a specific part of a thermal control device named Loop Heat Pipe (LHP), for subsequent insertion in the global model; e) study and evaluation of critical points in the development of a device, recently proposed by INPE, named multiphase heat switch. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

KISEEV, VALERY M.; VLASSOV, VALERI V.. Experimental optimization of capillary structures for loop heat pipes and heat switches. APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING, v. 30, n. 11-12, p. 1312-1319, AUG 2010. (08/00397-0)

KISEEV, VALERY M.; VLASSOV, VALERI V.; MURAOKA, ISSAMU. Optimization of capillary structures for inverted meniscus evaporators of loop heat pipes and heat switches. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER, v. 53, n. 9-10, p. 2143-2148, APR 2010. (08/00397-0)