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siphon2 CONSTRUCTSHydraulic siphonWISE · TRAP SEALThermosiphonHAIDER · NAT CIRC

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Hydraulics & drainage

a tube carrying liquid up over a rise and down a longer leg, flow continuing under gravity once started.

A siphon is a tube that carries liquid up over a rise and down the far side, flow continuing once started because the longer descending leg pulls the column along under gravity. Hughes's 2010 A practical example of a siphon at work treats the mechanism, and in plumbing the same action is a hazard: Wise's 1954 study of self-siphonage showed how a discharging fixture can siphon the water seal out of its own trap and let sewer gas enter. The referent is a gravity-driven liquid transfer and the trap-seal loss it causes, distinct from an animal's water tube or a heat-driven circulation loop.[1][2]

Unit
Flow rate and seal retention governed by leg heights and gravity
Recovery means
In drainage, a lost trap seal is restored by refilling the trap or adding anti-siphon venting
Measured by
Characterised by flow rate versus the height difference between legs, and by trap-seal retention after discharge

Thermal engineering

A loop that circulates fluid by density difference

In thermal engineering a thermosiphon is a closed loop that circulates a working fluid without a pump: fluid warmed at the heat source becomes less dense and rises, is cooled and grows denser elsewhere, and sinks, so buoyancy alone drives a continuous natural-circulation flow that carries heat away. Haider, Joshi, and Nakayama's 2002 model describes a two-phase closed-loop thermosiphon for electronics cooling. The referent is a buoyancy-driven heat-transfer loop, sharing only the name with a gravity liquid-transfer siphon or an animal's water tube.[3]

Unit
Heat transported by buoyancy-driven circulation in a closed loop
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Characterised by circulation rate, thermal resistance, and heat flux carried by natural circulation

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References

  1. Hughes, S. W. (2010). A practical example of a siphon at work. Physics Education, 45(2), 162–166. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9120/45/2/006
  2. Wise, A. F. E. (1954). Self-siphonage in building drainage systems. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 3(6), 789–808. https://doi.org/10.1680/ipeds.1954.12600
  3. Haider, S. I., Joshi, Y. K., & Nakayama, W. (2002). A natural circulation model of the closed loop, two-phase thermosyphon for electronic cooling. Journal of Heat Transfer, 124(5), 881–890. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1482404

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