Effect of Orientation and Draining on Linear Spray Array Thermal Management

Author(s):  
Benjamin M. Regner ◽  
Timothy A. Shedd

Spray cooling is a candidate solution for high heat flux cooling applications, and previous work has investigated the impact of parameters of conical sprays such as volumetric flux and Sauter mean diameter on heat transfer performance. However, there has been little work on the impact of drainage and spray orientation on spray performances. In addition, conical sprays are not very practical for large area coverage in compact packages, so this study, presents a novel arrangment that uses linear sprays impinging at an angle such that fluid management and uniform droplet coverage of large areas are both improved. Results for the heat transfer coefficient and CHF of a constrained, practical implementation of a spray array (as opposed to a laboratory-only geometry) are presented for FC-72, FC-40 and HFE-7000.

2016 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Taolue Zhang ◽  
Jorge Alvarado ◽  
J. P. Muthusamy ◽  
Anoop Kanjirakat ◽  
Reza Sadr

The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of droplet-induced crown propagation regimes (spreading and splashing) on liquid film hydrodynamics and heat transfer. In this work, the effects of high frequency droplet train impingement on spreading-splashing transition, liquid film hydrodynamics and surface heat transfer were investigated experimentally. HFE-7100 droplet train was generated using a piezo-electric droplet generator at a fixed flow rate of 165 mL/h. Optical and IR images were captured at stable droplet impingement conditions to visualize the thermal physical process. The droplet-induced crown propagation transition phenomena from spreading to splashing were observed by increasing the droplet Weber number. The liquid film hydrodynamics induced by droplet train impingement becomes more complex when the surface was heated. Bubbles and micro-scale fingering phenomena were observed outside the impact crater under low heat flux conditions. Dry-out was observed outside the impact craters under high heat flux conditions. IR images of the heater surface show that heat transfer was most effective within the droplet impact crater zone due to high fluid inertia including high radial momentum caused by high-frequency droplet impingement. Time-averaged heat transfer measurements indicate that the heat flux-surface temperature curves are linear at low surface temperature and before the onset of dry-out. However, a sharp increase in surface temperature can be observed when dry-out appears on the heater surface. Results also show that strong splashing (We = 850) is unfavorable for heat transfer at high heat flux conditions due to instabilities of the liquid film, which lead to the onset of dry-out. In summary, the results show that droplet Weber number is a significant factor in the spreading-splashing transition, liquid film hydrodynamics and heat transfer.


Author(s):  
Emre Olceroglu ◽  
Stephen M. King ◽  
Md. Mahamudur Rahman ◽  
Matthew McCarthy

The increased heat transfer achieved through dropwise condensation, as compared to filmwise condensation, has the potential to substantially impact a variety of applications including high-heat flux thermal management systems, integrated electronics cooling, and various industrial and chemical processes. Here, we report stable dropwise condensation onto biotemplated nanostructured super-hydrophobic surfaces. We have demonstrated continuous droplet coalescence and ejection at diameters of less than 20 μm and compared directly with flat hydrophobic surfaces. The self-ejection mechanism characteristic of dropwise condensation has been shown using a simple bio-nano-fabrication technique based on the self-assembly and mineralization of the Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV). This process is extendable to commercially relevant nanomanufacturing of both microscale electronics devices as well as large-scale large-area industrial equipment. This manufacturing flexibility is unique as compared to many other micro/nano-structured surfaces fabricated to demonstrate similar increases in condensation heat transfer.


Author(s):  
Qianying Wu ◽  
Chi Zhang ◽  
Mehdi Asheghi ◽  
Kenneth Goodson

Abstract Capillary-fed boiling in microporous copper inverse opals (CIOs) is capable of removing an excess of 1 kW/cm2 at 10–15 °C superheat over small wicking distances ∼ 200 μm. In order to remove heat from large area chips (> 1 cm2), longer capillary wicking distance is desired to reduce the manufacturing complexity of the 3D manifold for liquid delivery and vapor extraction. In this study, we propose graded copper inverse opals (g-CIOs) where smaller pores at the bottom provide high capillary pressure for liquid delivery, while larger pores at the top reduce viscous pressure drop for vapor extraction. This nonhomogeneous wicking material decouples the permeability and capillary pressure in the vertical and lateral directions, resulting in greater CHFs and capillary wicking distances. In this study, we demonstrate the feasibility of fabricating g-CIOs material with up to three different pore diameters (2 μm, 5 μm, and 10 μm) using a multi-step template sintering and copper electrodeposition process. We then leverage and expand upon a well-calibrated experimental model for the prediction of CHF in monoporous CIOs to map the performance metrics for g-CIOs. The model combines a hydraulic resistance network with Darcy’s law and accounts for the nonhomogeneous permeabilities in lateral and vertical directions. Using this model, we study the impact of total wick thickness and graded pore-size combinations on the critical heat fluxes and wicking distances. Our modeling results conclude that a two-layer g-CIOs can potentially reach ∼70% enhancement in the critical heat flux or ∼30% enhancement in the wicking length compared to monoporous CIOs of the same thickness. Our fabrication capability and preliminary modeling results offer the opportunity to design boiling tests with optimized g-CIOs and exploring the potential of dissipating high heat flux for large area cooling applications.


2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (6) ◽  
pp. 557-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul L. Sears ◽  
Libing Yang

Heat transfer coefficients were measured for a solution of surfactant drag-reducing additive in the entrance region of a uniformly heated horizontal cylindrical pipe with Reynolds numbers from 25,000 to 140,000 and temperatures from 30to70°C. In the absence of circumferential buoyancy effects, the measured Nusselt numbers were found to be in good agreement with theoretical results for laminar flow. Buoyancy effects, manifested as substantially higher Nusselt numbers, were seen in experiments carried out at high heat flux.


1998 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 671-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Shafiqul ISLAM ◽  
Ryutaro HINO ◽  
Katsuhiro HAGA ◽  
Masanori MONDE ◽  
Yukio SUDO

Author(s):  
Shinichi Miura ◽  
Yukihiro Inada ◽  
Yasuhisa Shinmoto ◽  
Haruhiko Ohta

Advance of an electronic technology has caused the increase of heat generation density for semiconductors densely integrated. Thermal management becomes more important, and a cooling system for high heat flux is required. It is extremely effective to such a demand using flow boiling heat transfer because of its high heat removal ability. To develop the cooling system for a large area at high heat flux, the cold plate structure of narrow channels with auxiliary unheated channel for additional liquid supply was devised and confirmed its validity by experiments. A large surface of 150mm in heated length and 30mm in width with grooves of an apex angle of 90 deg, 0.5mm depth and 1mm in pitch was employed. A structure of narrow rectangular heated channel between parallel plates with an unheated auxiliary channel was employed and the heat transfer characteristics were examined by using water for different combinations of gap sizes and volumetric flow rates. Five different liquid distribution modes were tested and their data were compared. The values of CHF larger than 1.9×106W/m2 for gap size of 2mm under mass velocity based on total volumetric flow rate and on the cross section area of main heated channel 720kg/m2s or 1.7×106W/m2 for gap size of 5mm under 290kg/m2s were obtained under total volumetric flow rate 4.5×10−5m3/s regardless of the liquid distribution modes. Under several conditions, the extensions of dry-patches were observed at the upstream location of the main heated channel resulting burnout not at the downstream but at the upstream. High values of CHF larger than 2×106W/m2 were obtained only for gap size of 2mm. The result indicates that higher mass velocity in the main heated channel is more effective for the increase in CHF. It was clarified that there is optimum flow rate distribution to obtain the highest values of CHF. For gap size of 2mm, high heat transfer coefficient as much as 7.4×104W/m2K were obtained at heat flux 1.5×106W/m2 under mass velocity 720kg/m2s based on total volumetric flow rate and on the cross section area of main heated channel. Also to obtain high heat transfer coefficient, it is more useful to supply the cooling liquid from the auxiliary unheated channel for additional liquid supply in the transverse direction perpendicular to the flow in the main heated channel.


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