Title

Design Of A Thermal Management System For Directed Energy Weapons

Abstract

A generic model was developed that can provide an estimate of the mass and volume and characterize the usefulness of thermal energy storage (TES) for various thermal management (TM) applications in advanced military aircraft. Conceptual design for low thermal duty cycle electronic heat sink applications was described. The criteria are presented for selecting a design for different end-applications. A thermal resistance model has been developed to analyze and optimize the design. It can be concluded that the heat sink design for the high-energy laser (HEL) system can have a high heat storage ability of 20 MJ, a volume storage density of 86 MJ/m3 and a mass storage density of 77 kJ/kg. The airborne active denial (AAD) system heat sink design can have a high heat storage ability of 25 MJ, a volume storage density of 76 MJ/m3 and a mass storage density of 69 kJ/kg. Copyright © 2009 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.

Publication Date

12-1-2009

Publication Title

41st AIAA Thermophysics Conference

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

77958486934 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/77958486934

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