High Heat Flux Liquid-Cooled Porous Metal Heat Sink

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark T. North ◽  
Wei-Lin Cho
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Pressure Drop ◽  
Thermal Resistance ◽  
Laser Diode ◽  
High Power ◽  
Heat Sink ◽  
Porous Metal ◽  
High Heat ◽  
High Heat Flux ◽  
Laser Diode Arrays

An advanced heat sinking technology is described in which heat is dissipated by flowing the liquid coolant through a matrix of well-bonded metallic particles. This porous metal heat sink has the capability to dissipate heat flux of 500W/cm2 or more with a unit area thermal resistance of 0.1°C·cm2/W. The construction of one incarnation of this class of heat sink developed for cooling of a high-power stack of laser diode arrays is described. Tradeoffs between pressure drop and thermal resistance are identified with regard to particle size and other geometric parameters. The patented manifolding geometry allows the cooling area to be scaled up without significantly increasing the overall pressure drop. Experimental data showing thermal resistance and pressure drop at a variety of different water flow rates is also presented. Applications for this technology can include cooling of laser diode arrays and high power electronic components such as CPUs.

Numerical Study of Turbulent Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Characteristics in a Water-Cooled Minichannel Heat Sink

2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. L. Xie ◽  
W. Q. Tao ◽  
Y. L. He
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Heat Flux ◽  
Pressure Drop ◽  
Wall Thickness ◽  
Heat Sink ◽  
Channel Wall ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Coolant Fluid ◽  
High Heat Flux ◽  
It Industry

With the rapid development of the Information Technology (IT) industry, the heat flux in integrated circuit (IC) chips cooled by air has almost reached its limit at about 100W∕cm2. Some applications in high technology industries require heat fluxes well beyond such a limitation. Therefore, the search for a more efficient cooling technology becomes one of the bottleneck problems of the further development of the IT industry. The microchannel flow geometry offers a large surface area of heat transfer and a high convective heat transfer coefficient. However, it has been hard to implement because of its very high pressure head required to pump the coolant fluid through the channels. A normal channel size could not give high heat flux, although the pressure drop is very small. A minichannel can be used in a heat sink with quite a high heat flux and a mild pressure loss. A minichannel heat sink with bottom size of 20mm×20mm is analyzed numerically for the single-phase turbulent flow of water as a coolant through small hydraulic diameters. A constant heat flux boundary condition is assumed. The effect of channel dimensions, channel wall thickness, bottom thickness, and inlet velocity on the pressure drop, temperature difference, and maximum allowable heat flux are presented. The results indicate that a narrow and deep channel with thin bottom thickness and relatively thin channel wall thickness results in improved heat transfer performance with a relatively high but acceptable pressure drop. A nearly optimized structure of heat sink is found that can cool a chip with heat flux of 350W∕cm2 at a pumping power of 0.314W.

Investigation of On-Chip Hot Spot Cooling Using Microchannel Heat Sink

2013 ◽  
Vol 455 ◽  
pp. 466-469
Author(s):  
Yun Chuan Wu ◽  
Shang Long Xu ◽  
Chao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Heat Sink ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
High Heat ◽  
High Heat Flux ◽  
Microchannel Heat Sink ◽  
Three Dimensional Model ◽  
Spot Cooling ◽  
On Chip

With the increase of performance demands, the nonuniformity of on-chip power dissipation becomes greater, causing localized high heat flux hot spots that can degrade the processor performance and reliability. In this paper, a three-dimensional model of the copper microchannel heat sink, with hot spot heating and background heating on the back, was developed and used for numerical simulation to predict the hot spot cooling performance. The hot spot is cooled by localized cross channels. The pressure drop, thermal resistance and effects of hot spot heat flux and fluid flow velocity on the cooling of on-chip hot spots, are investigated in detail.

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