Experiments on the Flow and Heat Transfer in Fine Pitch Parallel Plate Heat Sinks With Top Inlet Side Exit Flow

Author(s):  
Felipe E. Ortega-Gutierrez ◽  
Alfonso Ortega

Detailed temperature and pressure measurements in high aspect ratio parallel plate fin heat sinks were made in a Top Inlet Side Exit (TISE) experiment configuration without top bypass flow. Air flow was supplied to the top of the heat sink using a rectangular jet nozzle with three different jet nozzle widths, Wj. The study covered five jet velocities and three different jet nozzle width to heat sink length ratios. Static pressure measurements were made along the spanwise centerline inside the heat sink and on the mounting plate outside the heat sink. The measurements were used to study the influence of the jet impinging on the top of the heat sink on the loss coefficient of the heat sink. It was found that the overall loss coefficient was dependent on Re, Wj, the fin spacing, b, and the jet nozzle width relative to the heat sink length, Wj/L. Temperature measurements were made to study the total thermal resistance with no base heat spreading. An ad hoc model was used to predict the total thermal resistance of the heat sink in this complicated flow. The model modifies the total cooled area of the fin as a function of jet width and heat sink geometry. Good agreement was found with the experimental data for the cases of Wj/L = 1.0 and 0.5. The model does not work well in the case of Wj/L = 0.25.

Author(s):  
Felipe E. Ortega Gutierrez ◽  
Alfonso Ortega ◽  
Guoping Xu

Detailed static pressure and temperature measurements were made in fine pitch parallel plate copper heat sinks with and without top bypass flow. A set of heat sinks with differing fin pitch and with and without anodized finish were tested in a 3rd generation cross-flow wind tunnel that provides zero to one top clearance ratio. Static pressure measurements were made in the vicinity of the heat sink in order to study the influence of the top bypass for approach velocities from 1 to 10 m/s. A comparison was made with existing ad hoc models that model the core flow with laminar theory and the inlet and exit losses with empirical correlations from the compact heat exchanger literature. In general, excellent agreement was found in the laminar regime. However, significant deviation was found for approach velocities exceeding 5 m/s, probably because the flow transitions to turbulent beyond this approach Reynolds number. In the case of flow bypass a non-iterative two-leg bypass model yielded excellent agreement for pressure drop, indicating that an ad-hoc approach such as this has value. Precise temperature measurements were taken at different stream-wise locations at the centerline of the heat sinks, under conditions where the heat sink base was heated uniformly and when the base area was heated with a smaller heat source with a 1-to-11 heater-to-base area ratio. The combined data allow the direct evaluation of base heat spreading effects. The experimental results were compared to well-known models that solve the conduction problem by assuming either an isothermal boundary condition on the top of the base of the heat sink or a specified uniform effective heat transfer coefficient. Excellent agreement was found with the latter model.


2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 2001-2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanglong Xu ◽  
Yihao Wu ◽  
Qiyu Cai ◽  
Lili Yang ◽  
Yue Li

The objective is to optimize the configuration sizes and thermal performance of a multilayer silicon microchannel heat sink by the thermal resistance network model. The effect of structural parameter on the thermal resistance is analyzed by numercal simulation. Taking the thermal resistance as an objective function, a nonlinear and multi-constrained optimization model are proposed for the silicon microchannel heat sink in electronic chips cooling. The sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method is used to do the optimization design of the configuration sizes of the microchannel. For the heat sink with the size of 20mm?20mm and the power of 400 W, the optimized microchannel number, layer, height and width are 40 and 2, 2.2mm and 0.2mm, respectively, and its corresponding total thermal resistance for whole microchannel heat sink is 0.0424 K/W.


Author(s):  
Nico Setiawan Effendi ◽  
Kyoung Joon Kim

A computational study is conducted to explore thermal performances of natural convection hybrid fin heat sinks (HF HSs). The proposed HF HSs are a hollow hybrid fin heat sink (HHF HS) and a solid hybrid fin heat sink (SHF HS). Parametric effects such as a fin spacing, an internal channel diameter, a heat dissipation on the performance of HF HSs are investigated by CFD analysis. Study results show that the thermal resistance of the HS increases while the mass-multiplied thermal resistance of the HS decreases associated with the increase of the channel diameter. The results also shows the thermal resistance of the SHF HS is 13% smaller, and the mass-multiplied thermal resistance of the HHF HS is 32% smaller compared with the pin fin heat sink (PF HS). These interesting results are mainly due to integrated effects of the mass-reduction, the surface area enhancement, and the heat pumping via the internal channel. Such better performances of HF HSs show the feasibility of alternatives to the conventional PF HS especially for passive cooling of LED lighting modules.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Posobkiewicz ◽  
Krzysztof Górecki

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the validation of the usefulness of cooling systems containing Peltier modules for cooling power devices based on measurements of the influence of selected factors on the value of thermal resistance of such a cooling system. Design/methodology/approach A cooling system containing a heat-sink, a Peltier module and a fan was built by the authors and the measurements of temperatures and thermal resistance in various supply conditions of the Peltier module and the fan were carried out and discussed. Findings Conclusions from the research carried out answer the question if the use of Peltier modules in active cooling systems provides any benefits comparing with cooling systems containing just passive heat-sinks or conventional active heat-sinks constructed of a heat-sink and a fan. Research limitations/implications The research carried out is the preliminary stage to asses if a compact thermal model of the investigated cooling system can be formulated. Originality/value In the paper, the original results of measurements and calculations of parameters of a cooling system containing a Peltier module and an active heat-sink are presented and discussed. An influence of power dissipated in the components of the cooling system on its efficiency is investigated.


Author(s):  
Krishna Kota ◽  
Mohamed M. Awad

In this effort, theoretical modeling was employed to understand the impact of flow bypass on the thermal performance of air cooled heat sinks. Fundamental mass and flow energy conservation equations across a longitudinal fin heat sink configuration and the bypass region were applied and a generic parameter, referred as the Flow Bypass Factor (α), was identified from the theoretical solution that mathematically captures the effect of flow bypass as a quantifiable parameter on the junction-to-ambient thermal resistance of the heat sink. From the results obtained, it was found that, at least in the laminar regime, the impact of flow bypass on performance can be neglected for cases when the bypass gap is typically less than 5% of the fin height, and is almost linear at high relative bypass gaps (i.e., usually for bypass gaps that are more than 10–15% of the fin height). It was also found that the heat sink thermal resistance is more sensitive to small bypass gaps and the effect of flow bypass decreases with increasing bypass gap.


2013 ◽  
Vol 444-445 ◽  
pp. 1101-1106
Author(s):  
Li Feng Wang ◽  
Bao Dong Shao ◽  
He Ming Cheng ◽  
Ying He

The configuration sizes of multi-layer rectangle micro-channel heat sink are optimized, which has been widely used to cool electronic chip for its high heat transfer coefficient and compact structure. Taking the thermal resistance and the pressure drop as goal functions, a binary-objective optimization model was proposed for the multi-layer rectangle micro-channel heat sink based on Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) method. The number of optimized micro-channel in width n1 and that in height n2 are 24 and 3, the width of optimized micro-channel Wc and fin Wf are 360 and 55μm, the height of optimized micro-channel Hc is 1000μm, and the corresponding total thermal resistance of the whole micro-channel heat sink is 1.5429 °C/W. The corresponding pressure drop is about 2.3454 Pa. When the velocity of liquid is larger than 0.3 m/s, the effect of change of velocity of liquid on the thermal resistance and pressure drop can be neglected.


CFD Letters ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 100-112
Author(s):  
Shugata Ahmed ◽  
Erwin Sulaeman ◽  
Ahmad Faris Ismail ◽  
Muhammad Hasibul Hasan ◽  
Zahir Hanouf

In recent years, researchers are investigating several potential applications of two-phase flow in micro-gap heat sinks; electronic cooling is one of them. Further, internal micro-fins are used to enhance the heat transfer rate. However, the pressure drop penalty due to small gap height and fin surfaces is a major concern. Hence, minimization of thermal resistance and pressure drop is required. In this paper, effects of operating conditions, e.g., wall heat flux, pumping power, and inlet void fraction, on total thermal resistance and pressure drop in a micro-gap heat sink with internal micro-fins of rectangular and triangular profiles have been investigated by numerical analysis for the R-134a coolant. Furthermore, optimization of these parameters has been carried out by response surface methodology. Simulation results show that rectangular micro-fins show superior performance compared to triangular fins in reducing thermal resistance. Finally, for an optimum condition (7.1202×10-5 W pumping power, 1.2×107 Wm-2 heat flux, and 0.03 inlet void fraction), thermal resistance and pressure drop are reduced by 56.3% and 87.2%, respectively.


Author(s):  
T. J. John ◽  
B. Mathew ◽  
H. Hegab

In this paper the authors are studying the effect of introducing S-shaped pin-fin structures in a micro pin-fin heat sink to enhance the overall thermal performance of the heat sinks. For the purpose of evaluating the overall thermal performance of the heat sink a figure of merit (FOM) term comprising both thermal resistance and pumping power is introduced in this paper. An optimization study of the overall performance based on the pitch distance of the pin-fin structures both in the axial and the transverse direction, and based on the curvature at the ends of S-shape fins is also carried out in this paper. The value of the Reynolds number of liquid flow at the entrance of the heat sink is kept constant for the optimization purpose and the study is carried out over a range of Reynolds number from 50 to 500. All the optimization processes are carried out using computational fluid dynamics software CoventorWARE™. The models generated for the study consists of two sections, the substrate (silicon) and the fluid (water at 278K). The pin fins are 150 micrometers tall and the total structure is 500 micrometer thick and a uniform heat flux of 500KW is applied to the base of the model. The non dimensional thermal resistance and nondimensional pumping power calculated from the results is used in determining the FOM term. The study proved the superiority of the S-shaped pin-fin heat sinks over the conventional pin-fin heat sinks in terms of both FOM and flow distribution. S-shaped pin-fins with pointed tips provided the best performance compared to pin-fins with straight and circular tips.


2013 ◽  
Vol 709 ◽  
pp. 286-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Feng Wang ◽  
Bao Dong Shao ◽  
He Ming Cheng

The purpose of this paper is to optimize the structural sizes of multi-layer rectangle micro-channel heat sink, which has been widely used to cool electronic chip for its high heat transfer coefficient and compact structure. Taking the thermal resistance and the pressure drop as goal functions, a binary-objective optimization model was proposed for the multi-layer rectangle micro-channel heat sink based on Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) method. The number of optimized micro-channel in width n1 and that in height n2 are 21 and 7, the width of optimized micro-channel Wc and fin Wf are 340 and 130μm, the height of optimized micro-channel Hc is 415μm, and the corresponding total thermal resistance of the whole micro-channel heat sink is 1.3354 °C/W. The corresponding pressure drop is about 1.3377 Pa. When the velocity of liquid is larger than 0.3 m/s, the effect of change of velocity of liquid on the thermal resistance and pressure drop can be neglected.


Author(s):  
Vincent Lin ◽  
Sih-Li Chen

This paper develops an analytical model to predict the overall thermal resistance of a parallel plate heat sink associated with a non-uniform heat source. Using constrictive ratio and apparent interface ratio to interpret equivalent heat source area and maximal heat flux on source-to-sink contacting surface, the non-uniform heat source problem can be simplified as an equivalent uniform heat source problem. Then by using the existed correlations the present model can calculate the overall thermal resistance as a function of heat sink geometry, properties, interface conditions, and airflow velocity. An experimental investigation is performed to verify the theoretical model. Prediction results show good agreement with experimental measurements over a number of testing units. A case study of optimum is also proposed to demonstrate and understand the effects of variable constrictive ratio and apparent interface resistance.


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