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  1. Advanced Structurally Embedded Thermal Spreader Oscillating Heat Pipe Micro-Gravity Flight Experiment

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, August 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Bruce Drolen

  2. Performance Limits of Oscillating Heat Pipes: Theory and Validation

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, October 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Bruce Drolen

  3. Working Fluid Selection for Pulsating Heat Pipes

    Article • June 2011, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Bruce Drolen

  4. Loop Heat Pipe for Spacecraft Thermal Control, Part 2: Ambient Condition Tests

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, April 2005, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Bruce Drolen

  5. Long Life Mechanical Fluid Pump for Space Applications

    Article • January 2005, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Bruce Drolen

  6. Loop Heat Pipe for Spacecraft Thermal Control, Part 1: Vacuum Chamber Tests

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, October 2004, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Bruce Drolen

  7. Effective Thermal Conductivity of Saturated Sintered Nickel Loop Heat Pipe Wicks

    Article • June 2004, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Bruce Drolen

  8. Reflux performance of spacecraft heat pipes during ground test

    Article • January 2001, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Bruce Drolen

  9. Flight test performance of a loop heat pipe—Focus on a long steady state with no apparent subcooling

    Article • January 1999, American Institute of Physics

    Bruce Drolen

  10. Aeroheating on axisymmetric bluff-faced cylinders in transition flow

    Article • June 1995, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Bruce Drolen

  11. Heat pipe technology

    Article • Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, February 1995, Elsevier

    Bruce Drolen

  12. Performance of axially-grooved heat pipes with circumferentially nonuniform heating

    Article • July 1993, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Bruce Drolen

  13. High thermal conductivity graphite composite thermal doublers

    Article • January 1992, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Bruce Drolen

  14. Bidirectional reflectance and surface specularity results for a variety of spacecraft thermal control materials

    Article • June 1991, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Bruce Drolen

  15. Fixed conductance heat pipe performance with a liquid slug

    Article • June 1990, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Bruce Drolen

  16. Heat-pump-augmented radiator for high power spacecraft thermal control

    Article • January 1989, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Bruce Drolen

  17. An engineering model of surface specularity - Spacecraft design implications

    Article • June 1988, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Bruce Drolen

  18. Experiments on dependent scattering of radiation

    Article • June 1987, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Bruce Drolen

  19. Independent and dependent scattering in packed-sphere systems

    Article • June 1986, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Bruce Drolen

  20. Reactive plasma system for on-orbit cleaning of spacecraft thermal radiators

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Bruce Drolen