Simulating Capillary Effect in a heat pipe wick
 

I am doing my 8th semester project on heat pipes.
My project mainly involves simulations on ANSYS.
I have successfully modelled and meshed ( which is the easier part), I am struggling to incorporate the capillary effect in my wick structure.

The heat pipe which I have modelled is a closed system, it contains a vapour flow region enclosed by a wick structure.
The wick structure is in turn enclosed by a copper casing.

I am using the VOF model into incorporate the multiphase effects, along with the K-Epsilon model .
The main problem I am facing is on how to incorporate the capillary effect.
I am currently running a simulation with the following settings in the porous zone :-

1) Homogenous Porosity of 0.55
2) I am using only viscous resistance as the flow in the porous region is laminar.
I have 3 fluids namely air, water and steam.
I have given the same values of viscous resistance for water and steam and higher value for air ( I did this because I did not want air to flow in the porous media).
3) I reversed the direction vectors from 1 to -1 hoping that they will lead to incorporation of the capillary effect.

I am running short of time and am in need of help.


PS : please mail me at ruiarahul5@gmail.com ( for further information)

Dear Ruiarahul,
Have you fixed any value for the contact angle ?
Best regards,
Annan

No Annan, i havent checked that out till now, i'll look into that.

Regards,
Rahul.

Dear Ruiarahul,Did you solve the problem you raised?