Can Simscale simulate a heat pipe?

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Can a heat pipe be simulated within Simscale? To the best of my understanding this would require being able to simulate:
-The lowered pressure within the heat pipe
-Boiling and condensing of water (phase changes)
-Capillary forced in the wick that make the condensed water flow back
I haven’t found any of these in simscale yet, but maybe I just looked at the wrong place.
Thanks,
Philipp

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Hey there, and welcome to SimScale and the forum!

Here is a list of what you can and can not model in SimScale:

Physics that can be taken into account:

  • Pressure drops/gains
  • Convection heat transfer
  • Conduction heat transfer
  • Multiphase flow (with some restrictions)

Physics that can not be taken into account:

  • Chemistry (phase change, reactions)
  • Capillary force, caused by molecular adhesion + surface tension