Heat pipe is a two phase heat transfer device with high effective thermal
conductivity and transfer huge amount of heat with minimum temperature
gradient in between evaporator and condenser section. This paper objective
is to predict the thermal performance in terms of thermal resistance (R) and
heat transfer coefficient (h) of screen mesh wick heat pipe with DI
water-TiO2 as working fluid. The input process parameters of heat pipe such
as heat load (Q), tilt angle (?) and concentration of nanofluid (?) were
modeled and optimized by utilizing Response Surface Methodology (RSM) with
MiniTab-17 software to attain minimum thermal resistance and maximum heat
transfer coefficient. The minimum thermal resistance of 0.1764 0C/W and
maximum heat transfer coefficient of 1411.52 W/m2 0C was obtained under the
optimized conditions of 200 W heat load, 57.20 tilt angle and 0.159 vol. %
concentration of nano-fluid.