This paper experimentally and numerically investigated the heat transfer and friction characteristics of microfluidic heat sinks with variously-shaped micro-ribs, i.e., rectangular, triangular and semicircular ribs. The micro-ribs were fabricated on the sidewalls of microfluidic channels by a surface-micromachining micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) process and used as turbulators to improv...

Subcooled flow boiling in multi-microchannels can be used as an efficient thermal management approach in compact electrical devices. Highly subcooled flow boiling of HFE 7100 is studied in two microchannel heat sinks to choose a proper numerical model for simulating boiling flows in microchannels. Results of five different numerical models, including Volume of Fluid (VOF), Eulerian boiling, Eul...

A novel layered graphene-based architecture is achieved via an ordered self-assembly process. Amphipathic graphene nanosheets are joined horizontally into large sheets via edge splicing, and a cross-linking agent of poly(vinyl alcohol) bridges them into integrated three-dimensional monoliths with tunable interlayer spacing. This layered architecture possesses highly ordered and favorable microc...

in this paper, the two-dimensional triangular orthogonal functions (2d-tfs) are applied for solving a class of nonlinear two-dimensional volterra integral equations. 2d-tfs method transforms these integral equations into a system of linear algebraic equations. the high accuracy of this method is verified through a numerical example and comparison of the results with the other numerical methods.

This paper presents a method to construct microfluidic channels without physical walls – wall-less microchannels. In order to minimize liquid surface areas contacted to solid walls, this method uses three dimensional ring arrays compared to the previous wall-less microfluidics based on two dimensional patterns of hydrophilic and hydrophobic areas. Thus, we can form free-standing liquid pathways...

Rapid mixing of liquids is important for most microfluidic applications. However, mixing is slow in conventional micromixers, because, in the absence of turbulence, mixing here occurs by molecular diffusion. Recent experiments show that mixing can be enhanced by generating transient flow resulting in chaotic advection. While these are planar microchannels, here we show that three-dimensional or...

Analytical solutions are presented for velocity and temperature distributions of laminar fully developed flow of Newtonian, constant property fluids in micro/minichannels for a wide variety of cross-sections. The considered geometries include hyper-elliptical channels and regular polygon ducts, which covers several common shapes. The analysis is carried out under the conditions of constant axia...

Nowadays, microchannels as closed circuits channels for fluid flow and heat removal are an integral part of the silicon-based electronic microsystems. Most of previous numerical studies on microchannel heat sinks (MCHS) have been performed for a two-dimensional domain using constant properties of the working fluid. In this study, laminar fluid flow and heat transfer of variable properties Al2O3...