This month's AE presenter: James Aubuchon
Date of presentation: 21-March-2022
Subject: Heat Pipes
Description: In this presentation from his "Space Systems" series, on the subject of heat management, Jim talked a bit about heat pipes - the structures designed to move heat energy generated by or radiated onto a system to another area where it is less likely to interfere with the proper operation of the system. Most of these seemed to involve the circulation of some sort of cooling fluid (not necessarily water) from Point A where they pick up heat to Point B where they get rid of it. Unlike a car radiator, however, there is virtually no air cooling in space, and vacuum is an excellent insulator, both of which make the actual heat transfer a bit more complex.
