TY - JOUR
T1 - CFD study of liquid-cooled heat sinks with microchannel flow field configurations for electronics, fuel cells, and concentrated solar cells
AU - Ramos-Alvarado, Bladimir
AU - Li, Peiwen
AU - Liu, Hong
AU - Hernandez-Guerrero, Abel
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was initiated in the Energy and Fuel Cell Laboratory of the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Arizona. The first author is grateful to the 2009 Summer Research Program sponsored by the University of Arizona, USA, and the University of Guanajuato, Mexico.
PY - 2011/10
Y1 - 2011/10
N2 - A study of the heat transfer performance of liquid-cooled heat sinks with conventional and novel micro-channel flow field configurations for application in electronic devices, fuel cells, and concentrated solar cells is presented in this paper. The analyses were based on computations using the CFD software ANSYS FLUENT®. The flow regime in heat sinks is constrained to laminar flow in the study. Details of the heat transfer performance, particularly, the uniformity of temperature distribution on the heating surface, as well as the pressure losses and pumping power in the operation of the studied heat sinks were obtained. Comparisons of the flow distribution uniformity in multiple flow channels, temperature uniformity on heating surfaces, and pumping power consumption of heat sinks with novel flow field configurations and conventional flow field configurations were conducted. It was concluded that the novel flow field configurations studied in this work exhibit appreciable benefits for application in heat sinks.
AB - A study of the heat transfer performance of liquid-cooled heat sinks with conventional and novel micro-channel flow field configurations for application in electronic devices, fuel cells, and concentrated solar cells is presented in this paper. The analyses were based on computations using the CFD software ANSYS FLUENT®. The flow regime in heat sinks is constrained to laminar flow in the study. Details of the heat transfer performance, particularly, the uniformity of temperature distribution on the heating surface, as well as the pressure losses and pumping power in the operation of the studied heat sinks were obtained. Comparisons of the flow distribution uniformity in multiple flow channels, temperature uniformity on heating surfaces, and pumping power consumption of heat sinks with novel flow field configurations and conventional flow field configurations were conducted. It was concluded that the novel flow field configurations studied in this work exhibit appreciable benefits for application in heat sinks.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2011.04.015
DO - 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2011.04.015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79960897859
SN - 1359-4311
VL - 31
SP - 2494
EP - 2507
JO - Applied Thermal Engineering
JF - Applied Thermal Engineering
IS - 14-15
ER -