Numerical Prediction of Flow and Heat Transfer in an Impingement Heat Sink

1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Sathe ◽  
K. M. Kelkar ◽  
K. C. Karki ◽  
C. Tai ◽  
C. Lamb ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Sink ◽  
Heat Removal ◽  
Computational Method ◽  
Forced Flow ◽  
Thermal Engineering ◽  
Uniform Heat Flux ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer ◽  
Ceramic Base

Forced flow of air over extended surfaces offers a simple, reliable, and effective heat removal mechanism and is often employed in electronic equipment. The IBM 4381 heat sink, used in production IBM computers, utilizes this cooling technique. This heat sink consists of a ceramic substrate on which fins made of an aluminum-copper alloy are arranged in a regular array. Cooling air enters the fin array from a nozzle. Extensive experiments have been carried out to characterize the performance of this heat sink at the Advanced Thermal Engineering Laboratory at IBM Endicott. This paper presents computational analysis of the three-dimensional flow and heat transfer in this device for two different air flow rates through the nozzle. The heat dissipated by the electronic components is conducted into the fins through the ceramic base. In the present study the ceramic base is assumed to be subjected to a uniform heat flux at the bottom. The computational method incorporates a special block-correction procedure to enable iterative solution of conjugate heat transfer in the presence of large differences in thermal conductivities of the air and the fin material. The results of computations reproduce the flow pattern in the fin array that is observed experimentally. The part of the ceramic base directly below the nozzle is well cooled with the temperatures gradually increasing from the center towards the corner. The predicted pressure drop and most of the local temperatures at the base and the tip of the fins agree well with the experimental observations. This study illustrates the utility of computational flow analysis in the analysis and design of electronic cooling techniques.

Flow and Heat Transfer around Finned-Heat Sink in Electronic Enclosure with Axial Cooling Fan

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Fukue ◽  
T. Hatakeyama ◽  
Masaru Ishizuka ◽  
S. Nakagawa ◽  
K. Koizumi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Sink ◽  
Cooling Fan ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer

scholarly journals Study on flow and heat transfer of liquid metal in a new top-slotted microchannel heat sink

2021 ◽  
Vol 621 ◽  
pp. 012054
Author(s):  
Zhiwei Chen ◽  
Peng Qian ◽  
Zizhen Huang ◽  
Chengyuan Luo ◽  
Minghou Liu
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Liquid Metal ◽  
Heat Sink ◽  
Microchannel Heat Sink ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer

Analysis of flow and heat transfer over stretching/shrinking and porous surfaces

2021 ◽  
pp. 875608792110258
Author(s):  
Azhar Ali ◽  
Dil Nawaz Khan Marwat ◽  
Aamir Ali
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Convective Heat Transfer ◽  
Convective Heat ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Uniform Heat Flux ◽  
Similarity Transformations ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Porous Surfaces

Flows and heat transfer over stretching/shrinking and porous surfaces are studied in this paper. Unusual and generalized similarity transformations are used for simplifying governing equations. Current model includes all previous cases of stretched/shrunk flows with thermal effects discussed so far. Moreover, we present three different cases of thermal behavior (i) prescribed surface temperature (ii) Variable/uniform convective heat transfer at plat surface and (iii) prescribed variable/uniform heat flux. Stretching/shrinking velocity Uw(x), porosity [Formula: see text], heat transfer [Formula: see text], heat flux [Formula: see text] and convective heat transfer at surface are axial coordinate dependent. Boundary layer equations and boundary conditions are transformed into nonlinear ODEs by introducing unusual and generalized similarity transformations for the variables. These simplified equations are solved numerically. Final ODEs represent suction/injection, stretching/shrinking, temperature, heat flux, convection effects and specific heat. This current problem encompasses all previous models as special cases which come under the scope of above statement (title). The results of classical models are scoped out as a special case by assigning proper values to the parameters. Numerical result shows that the dual solutions can be found for different possible values of the shrinking parameter. A stability analysis is accomplished and apprehended in order to establish a criterion for determining linearly stable and physically compatible solutions. The significant features and diversity of the modeled equations are scrutinized by recovering the previous problems of fluid flow and heat transfer from a uniformly heated sheet of variable (uniform) thickness with variable (uniform) stretching/shrinking and injection/suction velocities.

Compact Modeling of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Straight Fin Heat Sinks

2004 ◽  
Vol 126 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duckjong Kim ◽  
Sung Jin Kim
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Porous Medium ◽  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Pressure Drop ◽  
Heat Sink ◽  
Volume Averaging ◽  
Thermal Design ◽  
Heat Sinks ◽  
Compact Modeling ◽  
Flow And Heat Transfer

In the present work, a compact modeling method based on a volume-averaging technique is presented. Its application to an analysis of fluid flow and heat transfer in straight fin heat sinks is then analyzed. In this study, the straight fin heat sink is modeled as a porous medium through which fluid flows. The volume-averaged momentum and energy equations for developing flow in these heat sinks are obtained using the local volume-averaging method. The permeability and the interstitial heat transfer coefficient required to solve these equations are determined analytically from forced convective flow between infinite parallel plates. To validate the compact model proposed in this paper, three aluminum straight fin heat sinks having a base size of 101.43mm×101.43mm are tested with an inlet velocity ranging from 0.5 m/s to 2 m/s. In the experimental investigation, the heat sink is heated uniformly at the bottom. The resulting pressure drop across the heat sink and the temperature distribution at its bottom are then measured and are compared with those obtained through the porous medium approach. Upon comparison, the porous medium approach is shown to accurately predict the pressure drop and heat transfer characteristics of straight fin heat sinks. In addition, evidence indicates that the entrance effect should be considered in the thermal design of heat sinks when Re Dh/L>∼O10.

Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop in a Pin Fin Heat Sink Using Nanofluids as Coolant

2015 ◽  
Vol 1105 ◽  
pp. 253-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weerapun Duangthongsuk ◽  
Somchai Wongwises
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Pressure Drop ◽  
Heat Sink ◽  
Heat Transfer Performance ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Electric Heater ◽  
Uniform Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Transfer Area ◽  
Pin Fin ◽  
Aluminum Material

This research presents an experimental investigation on the heat transfer performance and pressure drop characteristics of a heat sink with miniature square pin fin structure using nanofluids as coolant. ZnO-water nanofluids with particle concentrations of 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6 vol.% are used as working fluid and then compared with the data for water-cooled heat sink. Heat sink made from aluminum material with dimension around 28 x 33 x 25 mm (width x length x thickness). The heat transfer area and hydraulic diameter of the each flow channel is designed at 1,565 mm2and 1.2 mm respectively. Uniform heat flux at the bottom of heat sink is achieved using an electric heater. The experimental data illustrate that the thermal performance of heat sink using nanofluids as coolant is average 14% higher than that of the water-cooled heat sink. For pressure drop, the data show that the pressure drop of nanofluids is a few percent larger than that of the water-cooled heat sink.

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