The Microelectronics Cooling Impact and Comparison of 2D and 3D Unsteady Effects of a Pair of Opposed Confined Angled Impinging Air Jets

Author(s):  
Victor Adrian Chiriac ◽  
Jorge Luis Rosales

The unsteady laminar flow and heat transfer characteristics for a pair of angled confined impinging air jets centered in a channel were studied numerically. The time-averaged heat transfer coefficient for a pair of heat sources centered in the channel was determined, as well as the oscillating jet frequency for the unsteady cases. The present study is a continuation of the authors’ previous investigations, identifying the similarities and differences arising from the expansion to the third dimension. It examines the interaction between the angled jets and the associated impact on the cooling of the heat sources placed on the board at a jet Reynolds number of 100 and 600. Maintaining the inlet jet width, W, at 1 cm, as in the previous studied cases, the interaction between the 45° angled jets leads to the formation of unsteady symmetrical jets that impinge on the two heat sources placed on the board at a Reynolds number of 100. A second case investigates the hydrodynamic interaction between the 45° angled jets at a Reynolds number of 600. In this case the jets interact and form a region of unsteady shear causing the jets to sweep the target board and the heated components placed on it. The nature of this unsteadiness depends on the proximity of the jet inlets, the channel dimensions and the jet Reynolds number. The jet unsteadiness causes the stagnation point locations to sweep back and forth over the impingement region causing the jets to “wash” a larger surface area on the target wall. The relevant trends for the 2D and 3D jet hydrodynamic and thermal fields are further documented by comparing the field plots and the Nusselt numbers on the target walls for the cases under evaluation. Although similar in nature, the unsteady 3D opposite jets produce results that deviate from the 2D unsteady opposite jets. The complex vortex patterns resulting from the jet interaction at various jet inlet locations, as well as the velocity, vorticity and temperature fields for both 2D and 3D cases are thoroughly evaluated.

Author(s):  
Victor Chiriac ◽  
Jorge L. Rosales

The steady and unsteady laminar flow and heat transfer characteristics for a pair of opposing confined impinging slot jets in 2D and 3D were evaluated numerically at two Reynolds numbers. The present study continues the authors’ earlier work [1] and identifies the main similarities and differences arising from the expansion to the third dimension. At lower Reynolds number jet (Re = 300), the flow interaction produces a symmetric, steady flow hydrodynamic pattern with the jets being deflected laterally for the 2D flow. At Re = 300, the 3D slot jet produces almost the same values as the 2D case, yet the flow is slightly asymmetrical and unsteady. However, by further increasing the Reynolds number to 750, a complex and highly unsteady flow develops for both 2D and 3D simulations. The symmetry of both the 2D and 3D flows is disrupted and the resulting complex flow patterns reveal the vortex pairing effects, leading to the jet “buckling and sweeping” motion, enabling the enhanced local heat transfer. The convective heat transfer coefficients and the unsteady flow development between the jets are thoroughly investigated, with the flow unsteadiness also characterized by analyzing the stagnation point displacement on the channel walls. The comparison between the 2D and 3D flow patterns indicate that the 3D opposite jets enhance the unsteady effects compared to the 2D unsteady opposite jets. The complex vortex patterns resulting from the unsteady jets interaction, as well as the velocity, vorticity and temperature fields for both 2D and 3D cases are thoroughly evaluated. The comparison between the 2D and 3D impinging air jets is documented and the impact on chip/microelectronics cooling is highlighted.


Author(s):  
Jorge L. Rosales ◽  
Victor A. Chiriac

The unsteady laminar flow and heat transfer characteristics for a pair of confined impinging air jets centered in a channel were studied numerically. The time-averaged heat transfer coefficient for a pair of heat sources centered in the channel and aligned with the jets was determined as well as the oscillating jet frequency for the unsteady cases. The present study continues the authors’ previous investigation, which emphasized how single confined jets will remain steady at Reynolds numbers that make side-by-side jets highly unsteady. The nature of this unsteadiness depends on the proximity of the jet inlets, the channel dimensions and the jet Reynolds number. The jet unsteadiness causes the stagnation point locations to sweep back and forth over the impingement region, and the jets “wash” a larger surface area on the target wall. The results indicate that the dual jets become unsteady between a Reynolds number of 200 and 300. Also, in the range of Reynolds numbers studied, a fixed stagnation “bubble” was formed on the target wall between the two jets, which reduced the heat transfer removal from that region, leading in fact to a quasi-independence of the local heat transfer on flow conditions. The stagnant region contains slow moving warm air that forces the cool impinging air jets to flow to the sides of this target wall area. The oscillating frequency of the flow increases with Reynolds number for the unsteady cases. Also, the time-averaged heat transfer coefficient on the heat sources rises as the Reynolds number increases for the steady cases but there is a slight decrease when it transitions to unsteady flow, indicating again that the stagnation “bubble” occurring between the two heat sources affects the local heat transfer.


Author(s):  
Victor Chiriac ◽  
Jorge L. Rosales

A numerical investigation was performed at two Reynolds numbers to analyze the flow-field and heat transfer characteristics for a pair of laminar jets impinging on opposite walls in a channel. The present study is a continuation of the authors’ earlier work [1] in which the jets flowing out normal to the top channel wall produce a large stagnant bubble between the two jets which greatly reduce the heat transfer removal from the lower wall. In this case, the lower Reynolds number jet flow of 300 produces a symmetric, steady flow hydrodynamic pattern with the jets being deflected laterally. By further increasing the Reynolds number to 750, a complex asymmetric and highly unsteady flow develops between the two jets due to the opposite jet flow interaction. The convective heat transfer coefficients and the unsteady flow development between the jets are studied for each case. The flow unsteadiness is also characterized by analyzing the stagnation point displacement on the channel walls. The complex vortex patterns resulting from the jet interaction at the higher Reynolds number is investigated and its impact on the chip/microelectronics component cooling is thoroughly documented.   This paper was also originally published as part of the Proceedings of the ASME 2005 Heat Transfer Summer Conference.


Author(s):  
Victor Adrian Chiriac ◽  
Jorge Luis Rosales

The unsteady laminar flow and heat transfer characteristics for a pair of confined impinging air jets centered in a channel were studied numerically. The time-averaged heat transfer coefficient for a pair of heat sources centered in the channel was determined as well as the oscillating jet frequency for the unsteady cases. The present study continues the authors’ previous investigation [1], which emphasized how the small spacing between the heat sources leads to a reduction in heat transfer when increasing the flow Reynolds (Re) number, particularly in the unsteady regime. It depends on the proximity of the jet inlets, the channel dimensions and the jet Reynolds number. The jet unsteadiness causes the stagnation point locations to sweep back and forth over the impingement region, and the jets “wash” a larger surface area on the target wall. The results indicate that the dual jets become unsteady between a Renumber of 200 and 300. Prior study indicated that in this Re range, a fixed stagnation “bubble” forms on the target wall between the two jets, reducing the local heat transfer and leading to its quasi-independence on flow conditions. In this study, due to the larger space between the heat sources, the “bubble” occurring between the jets is not having a detrimental impact on heat transfer. The oscillating frequency of the flow increases with Re number for the unsteady cases, leading to significant heat transfer enhancement. The time-averaged heat transfer coefficient on the heat sources rises with Re number increase for both steady and unsteady cases. By varying the distance between the heat sources, the “bubble” region does not impact the cooling of the heat sources, as the increase in flow rate leads to increased heat transfer coefficients. Alternative designs and their impact on the heat source thermal performance are further investigated.


Author(s):  
Hasan Gunes ◽  
Sertac Cadirci

In this study we show that the POD can be used as a useful tool to solve inverse design problems in thermo-fluids. In this respect, we consider a forced convection problem of air flow in a grooved channel with periodically mounted constant heat-flux heat sources. It represents a cooling problem in electronic equipments where the coolant is air. The cooling of electronic equipments with constant periodic heat sources is an important problem in the industry such that the maximum operating temperature must be kept below a value specified by the manufacturer. Geometric design in conjunction with the improved convective heat transfer characteristics is important to achieve an effective cooling. We obtain a model based on the proper orthogonal decomposition for the convection optimization problem such that for a given channel geometry and heat flux on the chip surface, we search for the minimum Reynolds number (i.e., inlet flow speed) for a specified maximum surface temperature. For a given geometry (l = 3.0 cm and h = 2.3 cm), we obtain a proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) model for the flow and heat transfer for Reynolds number in the range 1 and 230. It is shown that the POD model can accurately predict the flow and temperature field for off-design conditions and can be used effectively for inverse design problems.


1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
pp. 912-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Parsons ◽  
M. L. Arey

Experiments have been performed which describe the transient development of natural convective flow from both a single and two vertically aligned horizontal cylindrical heat sources. The temperature of the wire heat sources was monitored with a resistance bridge arrangement while the development of the flow field was observed optically with a Mach–Zehnder interferometer. Results for the single wire show that after an initial regime where the wire temperature follows pure conductive response to a motionless fluid, two types of fluid motion will begin. The first is characterized as a local buoyancy, wherein the heated fluid adjacent to the wire begins to rise. The second is the onset of global convective motion, this being governed by the thermal stability of the fluid layer immediately above the cylinder. The interaction of these two motions is dependent on the heating rate and relative heat capacities of the cylinder and fluid, and governs whether the temperature response will exceed the steady value during the transient (overshoot). The two heat source experiments show that the merging of the two developing temperature fields is hydrodynamically stabilizing and thermally insulating. For small spacing-to-diameter ratios, the development of convective motion is delayed and the heat transfer coefficients degraded by the proximity of another heat source. For larger spacings, the transient behavior approaches that of a single isolated cylinder.


1993 ◽  
Vol 115 (3) ◽  
pp. 560-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Zhang ◽  
J. Chiou ◽  
S. Fann ◽  
W.-J. Yang

Experiments are performed to determine the local heat transfer performance in a rotating serpentine passage with rib-roughened surfaces. The ribs are placed on the trailing and leading walls in a corresponding posited arrangement with an angle of attack of 90 deg. The rib height-to-hydraulic diameter ratio, e/Dh, is 0.0787 and the rib pitch-to-height ratio, s/e, is 11. The throughflow Reynolds number is varied, typically at 23,000, 47,000, and 70,000 in the passage both at rest and in rotation. In the rotation cases, the rotation number is varied from 0.023 to 0.0594. Results for the rib-roughened serpentine passages are compared with those of smooth ones in the literature. Comparison is also made on results for the rib-roughened passages between the stationary and rotating cases. It is disclosed that a significant enhancement is achieved in the heat transfer in both the stationary and rotating cases resulting from an installation of the ribs. Both the rotation and Rayleigh numbers play important roles in the heat transfer performance on both the trailing and leading walls. Although the Reynolds number strongly influences the Nusselt numbers in the rib-roughened passage of both the stationary and rotating cases, Nuo and Nu, respectively, it has little effect on their ratio Nu/Nuo.


1999 ◽  
Vol 122 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. R. Hedlund ◽  
P. M. Ligrani

Local flow behavior and heat transfer results are presented from two swirl chambers, which model passages used to cool the leading edges of turbine blades in gas turbine engines. Flow results are obtained in an isothermal swirl chamber. Surface Nusselt number distributions are measured in a second swirl chamber (with a constant wall heat flux boundary condition) using infrared thermography in conjunction with thermocouples, energy balances, and in situ calibration procedures. In both cases, Reynolds numbers Re based on inlet duct characteristics range from 6000 to about 20,000. Bulk helical flow is produced in each chamber by two inlets, which are tangent to the swirl chamber circumference. Important changes to local and globally averaged surface Nusselt numbers, instantaneous flow structure from flow visualizations, and distributions of static pressure, total pressure, and circumferential velocity are observed throughout the swirl chambers as the Reynolds number increases. Of particular importance are increases of local surface Nusselt numbers (as well as ones globally averaged over the entire swirl chamber surface) with increasing Reynolds number. These are tied to increased advection, as well as important changes to vortex characteristics near the concave surfaces of the swirl chambers. Higher Re also give larger axial components of velocity, and increased turning of the flow from each inlet, which gives Go¨rtler vortex pair trajectories greater skewness as they are advected downstream of each inlet. [S0889-504X(00)00502-X]


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahyar Pourghasemi ◽  
Nima Fathi

Abstract 3-D numerical simulations are performed to investigate liquid sodium (Na) flow and the heat transfer within miniature heat sinks with different geometries and hydraulic diameters of less than 5 mm. Two different straight small-scale heat sinks with rectangular and triangular cross-sections are studied in the laminar flow with the Reynolds number up to 1900. The local and average Nusselt numbers are obtained and compared against eachother. At the same surface area to volume ratio, rectangular minichannel heat sink leads to almost 280% higher convective heat transfer rate in comparison with triangular heat sink. It is observed that the difference between thermal efficiencies of rectangular and triangular minichannel heat sinks was independent of flow Reynolds number.


Author(s):  
C. R. Hedlund ◽  
P. M. Ligrani

Local flow behavior and heat transfer results are presented from two swirl chambers, which model passages used to cool the leading edges of turbine blades in gas turbine engines. Flow results are obtained in an isothermal swirl chamber. Surface Nusselt number distributions are measured in a second swirl chamber (with a constant wall beat flux boundary condition) using infrared thermography, in conjunction with thermocouples, energy balances, and in situ calibration procedures. In both cases, Reynolds numbers Re based on inlet duct characteristics range from 6000 to about 20000. Bulk helical flow is produced in each chamber by two inlets which ore tangent to the swirl chamber circumference. Important changes to local and globally-averaged surface Nusselt numbers, instantaneous flow structure from flow visualizations, and distributions of static pressure, total pressure, and circumferential velocity are observed throughout the swirl chambers as the Reynolds number increases. Of particular importance are increases of local surface Nusselt numbers (as well as ones globally-averaged over the entire swirl chamber surface) with increasing Reynolds number. These are tiad to increased advection, as well as important changes to vortex characteristics near the concave surfaces of the swirl chambers. Higher Re also give larger axial components of velocity, and increased turning of the flow from each inlet, which gives Görtler vnrtex pair trajectories greater skewness as they are advected downstream of each inlet.


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