About My Project

My project started with getting an expert scientist through a connection at my mom's work. I reached out to Mr. Costulis and he said he would be happy to work with me, and as I wrote my literature review, we workshopped ideas of what I could do for a research project until we landed on making a mathematical model dealing with heat pipes and heat control.

Creating the model took some work, I had to first find the base equations that would give me the desired results. I took those and manipulated them to yield the desired values, some of my work is shown on my product page.

All that was left then was to plug in numbers for my model. I decided on the specifications of the hypothetical system I would be working with, and chose six materials to test the properties of. I chose aluminum, beryllium, cadmium, copper, gold, and silver. I chose those because they were either used very commonly in heat pipes on satellites (aluminum), or were good conductors (copper, gold, and silver), or they were particularly malleable (beryllium and cadmium).