Thermal characteristics of a two-phase composite

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 929-934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsiu-Ching Hsu ◽  
Wei-Hsing Tuan
Author(s):  
Ram Ranjan ◽  
Abhijeet Patel ◽  
Suresh V. Garimella ◽  
Jayathi Y. Murthy

The thermal and hydrodynamic performance of passive two-phase cooling devices such as heat pipes and vapor chambers is limited by the capabilities of the capillary wick structures employed. The desired characteristics of wick microstructures are high permeability, high wicking capability and large extended meniscus area that sustains thin-film evaporation. Choices of scale and porosity of wick structures lead to tradeoffs between the desired characteristics. In the present work, models are developed to predict the capillary pressure, permeability and thin-film evaporation rates of various micropillared geometries. Novel wicking geometries such as conical and pyramidal pillars on a surface are proposed which provide high permeability, good thermal contact with the substrate and large thin-film evaporation rates. A comparison between three different micropillared geometries — cylindrical, conical and pyramidal — is presented and compared to the performance of conventional sintered particle wicks. The present work demonstrates a basis for reverse-engineering wick microstructures that can provide superior performance in phase-change cooling devices.


1991 ◽  
Vol 57 (534) ◽  
pp. 687-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji FUKUDA ◽  
Shu HASEGAWA ◽  
Tetsuya KONDOH ◽  
Kiyoshi NAKAGAWA ◽  
Shinya TAMURA ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 101605
Author(s):  
Yan Cao ◽  
Phong Thanh Nguyen ◽  
Kittisak Jermsittiparsert ◽  
Hafedh Belmabrouk ◽  
Sayer O. Alharbi ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 45 (11) ◽  
pp. 2884-2891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Smith ◽  
James E. Kennedy ◽  
Clement L. Higginbotham

2014 ◽  
Vol 575 ◽  
pp. 322-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narayanan Alagappan ◽  
Narayanan Karunakaran

The two-phase closed thermosyphon (TPCT), which is essentially a gravity-assisted wickless heat pipe, utilizes the evaporation and condensation of the working fluid inside the TPCT to transport heat. This experimental study was carried out to understand the thermal performance of circular finned thermosyphon using nanofluid with alcohol and was analyzed, compared with alcohol and base fluid DI water. The concentration of nanoparticle used in this setup was 110mg/lit of TiO2combined with 0.2 ml of ethylene glycol. The heat input (Q) were 10W, 12W, 14 W and 16 W and the orientation 30°, 45°, 60° and 90°.The results demonstrate that TiO2nanofluid with 0.2 ml of ethylene glycol improves the performance through reduction in thermal resistance by 85.86%.


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