Results of numerical optimization are reported for a phase change heat sink used to cool electronic equipment in extreme environments. The heat sink consists of a conventional, extruded aluminum sink embedded in a block of phase change material. This type of heat sink is used in infrared cameras carried by fire fighters into burning buildings. Optimization of the geometry of the heat sink assem...

Title of Dissertation: HEAT TRANSFER AND MECHANICAL DESIGN ANALYSIS OF SUPERCRITICAL GAS COOLING PROCESS OF CO2 IN MICROCHANNELS Guohua Kuang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Directed By: Professor Michael Ohadi, Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Balakumar Balachandran (Co-Advisor), Department of Mechanical Engineering An extensive review of the literature indicates a lack of systematic...

The purpose of this paper is to study the effects use boron nitride (BN) and other conventional nanoparticles (Al2O3, CuO TiO2) on pressure drop heat transfer in a microchannel. governing equations for forced fluid flow were worked out by using fluent computational dynamics (CFD) code. Computational results collected from CFD code Al2O3 as nano-particle compared with numerical values used liter...

Rapid advances in microelectromechanical systems have stimulated the development of compact devices, which require effective cooling technologies (e.g., microchannel cooling). However, the inconsistencies between experimental and classical theoretical predictions for the liquid flow in microchannel remain unclarified. Given the larger surface/volume ratio of microchannel, the surface effects in...

Micro-Channel Heat Sink is a heat exchanger which is used to control the temperature of electronic devices with high heat flux. A comprehensive thermal model for the micro-channels should include three dimensional conduction analysis in the solid body together with three dimensional developing fluid flow as well as heat transfer analyses in the fluid section. This paper reports on a research ...

In this work\ a new concept for a two!layered micro!channel heat sink with counter current ~ow arrangement for cooling of the electronic components is proposed[ The thermal performance and the temperature distribution for these types of micro channels were analyzed and a procedure for optimizing the geometrical design parameters is presented[ While the power supply system of the two!layered des...

For effective water-based thermal management of high heat generating CPU chip, a series numerical simulation has been conducted to study the effects flux, fin height and flow rate on convective performance plate-fin microchannel sinks. The characteristics transfer resistance have quantificationally discussed JF factor is employed evaluate comprehensive efficiency sink. Results show that ...