Laser weapons – Knowledge and References

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Defense Information, Communication, and Space Technology

Published in Anna M. Doro-on, Handbook of Systems Engineering and Risk Management in Control Systems, Communication, Space Technology, Missile, Security and Defense Operations, 2023

Anna M. Doro-on

Not all laser sources meet the requirements of power scale-up. The elite categories of laser sources that qualify for directed energy laser weapon system applications include gas dynamic CO2 laser (see Figure 5.16-b), chemical lasers such as hydrogen-fluoride/deuterium-fluoride (HF/DF) laser (see Figure 5.17a-b) and COIL (see Figure 5.18a), and solid-state lasers and fiber lasers (see Figure 5.18b).

Experimental study on effect of enhanced surfaces and inclined mode on spray cooling heat transfer performance using HFE-649 coolant

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Published in Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, 2022

Sukhdeep Singh, Rajeev Kukreja

Over the last two decades, research in the field of thermal management for high heat flux devices has identified cooling methods such as jet impingement, microchannel, and spray cooling as obvious future candidates (Ebadian and Lin 2011). Out of these, spray cooling technique is believed to be the best potential candidate in terms of high heat flux removal capacity, uniform surface temperature, less coolant inventory, and no boiling hysteresis (Cheng et al. 2016). Owing to high heat flux removal capability, spray cooling technique has accorded wide spread attention in recent years in various fields such as metallurgical industry (Hou, Tao, and Huai 2013), laser weapon (Wang et al. 2017b), laser surgery (Zhou et al. 2012), space vehicles (Wang et al. 2017a), supercomputer center (Chen et al. 2017), and so on.