Capillary pumped loop is a two phase device that uses the phase change phenomena occurred in the porous wick to transport large heat loads over long distances (several meters) without the need of any mechanical pump. CPLs have been developed and successfully employed for the thermal control of satellites. Thanks to their heat transport capacity, their use is now seriously considered in the gravity field especially for cooling electronic devices of a railroad traction chain.The work of this thesis focuses on the description of the unsteady thermodynamic behavior of a capillary pumped loop used by Alstom Transport to cool its power electronics components.The first part of the thesis consists to study the key component of CPL: the capillary evaporator. A 2D unsteady mathematical model has been developed to describe the heat and mass transfer inside the porous wick of the CPL evaporator. The numerical results of this model show the formation of a vapor pocket inside the porous wick. The influences of evaporator geometry, liquid subcooling, saturation temperature and wick porosity on the dynamic growth of the vapor pocket are discussed in detail.The second part of this work consists of coupling the CPL evaporator model with other CPL components in order to obtain a global capillary pumped poop model with a mobile liquid/vapor interface in the porous wick. The proposed model is validated by comparing numerical simulations with experimental results obtained in a previous works realized at Alstom Transport. The CPL startup is then studied. Finally, the influences of the applied power, reservoir temperature and heat sink temperature on the dynamic response of the overall loop are analyzed, with a particular interest to the evaporator behavior.
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