An Experimental Study of Two Phase Flow in Impinging Micro Channels

Author(s):  
Liang-Han Chien ◽  
Han-Yang Liu ◽  
Wun-Rong Liao

A heat sink integrating micro-channels with multiple jets was designed to achieve better heat transfer performance for chip cooling. Dielectric fluid FC-72 was the working fluid. The heat sink contained 11 micro-channels, and each channel was 0.8 mm high, 0.6 mm wide, and 12 mm in length. There were 3 or 5 pores on each micro-channel. The pore diameters were either 0.24 or 0.4 mm, and the pore spacing ranged from 1.5 to 3 mm. In the tests, the saturation temperature of cooling device was set at 30 and 50°C, and the volume flow rate ranged from 9.1 to 73.6 ml/min per channel (total flow rate = 100∼810 ml/min). The experimental result showed that heat transfer performance increased with increasing flow rate for single phase heat transfer. For heat flux between 20 and 100 kW/m2, the wall superheat decreases with increasing flow rate at a fixed heat flux. However, the influence of the flow rate diminished when the channels are in two phase heat transfer regime. Except for the lowest flow rate (9.1 ml/min), the heat transfer performance increased with increasing jet diameter/spacing ratios. The best surface had three nozzles of 0.4 mm diameter in 3.0 mm jet spacing. It had the lowest thermal resistance of 0.0611 K / W in the range of 200 ∼ 240 W heat input.

Author(s):  
Liang-Han Chien ◽  
S.-Y. Pei ◽  
T.-Y. Wu

This study investigates the influence of the heat flux and mass velocity on convective heat transfer performance of FC-72 in a rectangular channel of 20mm in width and 2 mm in height. The heated side has either a smooth surface or a pin-finned surface. The inlet fluid temperature is maintained at 30°C. The total length of the test channel is 113 mm, with a heated length of 25mm. The flow rate varies between 80 and 960 ml/min, and the heat flux sets between 18 and 50 W/cm2. The experimental results show that the controlling variable is heat flux instead of flow rate because of the boiling activities in FC-72. At a fixed flow rate, the pin-finned surface yields up to 20% higher heat transfer coefficient and greater critical heat flux than those of a smooth surface.


2013 ◽  
Vol 589-590 ◽  
pp. 559-564
Author(s):  
Xi Bing Li ◽  
Yun Shi Ma ◽  
Xun Wang ◽  
Ming Li

As a highly efficient heat transfer component, a micro heat pipe (MHP) has been widely applied to the situations with high heat flux concentration. However, a MHPs heat transfer performance is affected by many factors, among which, working fluid inventory has great influence on the security, reliability and frost resistance of its heat transfer performance. In order to determine the appropriate working fluid inventory for grooved MHPs, this paper first analyzed the working principle, major heat transfer limits and heat flux distribution law of grooved MHPs in electronic chips with high heat flux concentration, then established a mathematic model for the working fluid inventory in grooved MHPs. Finally, with distilled water being the working fluid, a series of experimental investigations were conducted at different temperatures to test the heat transfer performances of grooved MHPs, which were perfused with different inventories and with different adiabatic section lengths. The experimental results show that when the value of α is roughly within 0.40±0.05, a grooved MHP can acquire its best heat transfer performance, and the working fluid inventory can be determined by the proposed mathematic model. Therefore this study solves the complicated problem of determining appropriate working fluid inventory for grooved MHPs.


Author(s):  
Shailesh N. Joshi ◽  
Danny J. Lohan ◽  
Ercan M. Dede

Abstract The heat transfer and fluid flow performance of a hybrid jet plus multipass microchannel heat sink in two-phase operation is evaluated for the cooling of a single large area, 3.61 cm2, heat source. The two-layer branching microchannel heat sink is evaluated using HFE-7100 as the coolant at three inlet volumetric flow rates of 150, 300, and 450 ml/min. The boiling performance is highest for the flow rate of 450 ml/min with the maximum heat flux value of 174 W/cm2. Critical heat flux (CHF) was observed at two of the tested flow rates, 150 and 300 ml/min, before reaching the maximum operating temperature for the serpentine heater. At 450 ml/min, the heater reached the maximum allowable temperature prior to observing CHF. The maximum pressure drop for the heat sink is 34.1 kPa at a heat flux of 164 W/cm2. Further, the peak heat transfer coefficient value of the heat sink is 28,700 W/m2 K at a heat flux value of 174 W/cm2 and a flow rate of 450 ml/min. Finally, a validated correlation of the single device cooler is presented that predicts heat transfer performance and can be utilized in the design of multidevice coolers.


2020 ◽  
Vol 143 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongtong Li ◽  
Liang Gong ◽  
Minghai Xu ◽  
Yogendra Joshi

Abstract In this paper, a concept of metal foam heat sink with pin fins (MFPF heat sink) is proposed to improve the cooling performance of high-powered electronics with nonuniform heat flux. Numerical simulations are carried out to investigate the thermohydraulic performance of MFPF heat sink, and the metal foam (MF) heat sink and traditional pin fin (PF) heat sink are employed for comparison. The capability of MFPF heat sink in handling nonuniform heat flux is examined under different power levels. It indicates that the MFPF heat sink greatly enhances the heat transfer performance, due to the common effects of the improved flow distribution and enhanced overall effective thermal conductivity (ETC). Results also show that the MFPF heat sink promotes the improvement of the bottom wall temperature uniformity. Porosity has more pronounced effects on heat transfer performance of MFPF heat sink than pore density. A nonuniform distribution heat flux (15–80–15 W/cm2) can be successfully dissipated using the proposed MFPF heat sink with the junction temperature below 95 °C at Re of 500.


Author(s):  
Feng Sun ◽  
G.-X. Wang

This paper presents a numerical study of turbulent flow and heat transfer in a bayonet tube under steady state. First, various turbulent models and wall treatment methods have been tested and validated against the experimental result from a turbulent air jet. The proper combination of turbulent model and wall treatment is then recommended for the turbulent flow within a bayonet tube. The study focuses on the heat transfer performance at the interface of working fluid and the outer tube wall under different Reynolds numbers. Various geometry parameters are considered in this work and the impact of geometry on the heat transfer performance is investigated. Results indicate that the heat transfer at the bottom of the bayonet tube is enhanced compared with that at the straight part. At low Re (< 8000), the maximum Nu occurs at the stagnation point, while the position of the maximum Nu moves away from the stagnant point as Re exceeds 8000. The results are believed to be helpful for the optimized design of a bayonet tube with fully turbulent flows.


Fractals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (07) ◽  
pp. 1950111
Author(s):  
WEI YU ◽  
LUYAO XU ◽  
SHUNJIA CHEN ◽  
FENG YAO

A two-dimensional model is developed to numerically study the water flow boiling through a tree-shaped microchannel by VOF method. In this work, the bubble dynamics and flow patterns along the channel are examined. Additionally, the pressure drop, heat transfer performance and the effects of mass flow rate and heat flux on the heat transfer coefficient are analyzed and discussed. The numerical results indicate that, there are three main bubble dynamic behaviors at the wall, namely coalesce-lift-off, coalesce-slide and coalesce-reattachment. At the bifurcation in high branching level, the slug bubbles may coalesce or breakup. The flow patterns of bubbly, bubbly-slug flows occur at low branching level and slug flow occurs at high branching level. The passage of bubbles causes the increasing of fluid temperature and local pressure. Additionally, the pressure drop decreases with the branching level. The flow pattern and channel confinement effect play a vital role in heat transfer performance. The nucleate boiling dominant heat transfer is observed at low branching level, the heat transfer performance is enhanced with increasing branching level from [Formula: see text] to 2. While, at high branching level, the heat transfer performance becomes weaker due to the suppression of nucleate boiling. Moreover, the heat transfer coefficient increases with the mass flow rate and heat flux.


Author(s):  
Liang-Han Chien ◽  
S.-Y. Pei ◽  
T.-Y. Wu

This study investigates the convective heat transfer performance of two fluids (water and FC-72) in a one side heated rectangular channel of 20mm in width and 2mm in height. The heated side has either a smooth surface or a pin-finned surface. The inlet fluid temperature was maintained at 30°C. The total length of the test channel was 113 mm, with a heated length of 25mm. The flow rate varied between 80 and 960 ml/min, and the heat flux was between 18 and 98 W/cm2. Single phase convection was the dominant heat transfer mechanism in the present water tests, and the performance was mainly controlled by flow rate. Contrarily, the heat flux was the major factor for the heat transfer performance in FC-72 as a result of the dominant boiling effect. At a fixed flow rate, the pin-finned surface yielded up to 30% higher heat transfer coefficient and greater critical heat flux than those of a smooth surface. The convective heat transfer coefficient of FC-72 was greater than water at low flow rates (80∼160 ml/min) and heat fluxes between 18 and 35 W/cm2. However, the heat transfer performance of water was superior to FC-72 at high flow rates.


Author(s):  
Mengyao Wei ◽  
Sivanand Somasundaram ◽  
Bin He ◽  
Qian Liang ◽  
Rishi Raj ◽  
...  

Biporous evaporator wicks for heat pipe and vapor chambers can perform superiorly by reducing the viscous drag with larger pores or channels and simultaneously generate higher capillary pressure with smaller pores radius. Unlike conventional sintered metal biporous wicks, cylindrical silicon micropillar based evaporator with microchannels, possess the following advantages: mature and easily controllable fabrication process, possibility of direct integration with semiconductor devices and no risk of thermal expansion mismatch. In this work, we investigated a biporous wick for the evaporator design, which consists of micro pillar arrays interspersed within micro channels. This design was systematically studied by constructing a mathematical model, by coupling Brinkman’s equation with mass and energy conservation equations, to predict the biporous wicks’ heat transfer performance. In order to find the best combination of geometric factors that give the highest heat flux at a certain superheat value, optimization in Matlab was done. The effect of diameter to pitch ratio, aspect ratio, channel width and contact angle on wick’s permeability, capillary pressure and evaporative heat flux were also investigated. Conclusion was drawn that a higher diameter to pitch ratio of 0.57, reasonable aspect ratio of 1.75∼3.22, island to channel width ratio of around 1.96 are preferred in this kind of biporous wick’s design. Biporous wick show potential to dissipate heat flux of 515.7 W/cm2 at superheat of 40 °C, which is 134 % higher compared to monoporous wick.


Author(s):  
Xiao Hu ◽  
Guiping Lin ◽  
Hongxing Zhang

A closed-loop two-phase microchannels cooling system using a micro-gear pump was built in this paper. The microchannels heat sink was made of oxygen-free copper, and 14 parallel microchannels with the dimension of 0.8mm(W)×1.5mm(D)×20mm(L) were formed by electric spark drilling followed by linear cutting which separated the channels from each other. The heat transfer performance was evaluated by the fluid temperature, the pressure drop across the micro-channels and the volumetric flow rate. Experiments were performed with refrigerant FC-72 which spanned the following conditions: initial pressure of Pin = 73 kPa, mass velocity of G = 94 – 333 kg/m2s, outlet quality of xe,out = 0 – superheat and heat flux of q″= 25–140 W/cm2. The result showed that, the maximum heat flux achieved 96 W/cm2, as the heating surface temperature was kept below 85 °C and critical heat flux occurred in the condition of low flow rate. Average two-phase heat transfer coefficients increased with the heat flux at low mass flux (G = 94 and 180 kg/m2s) and all heat fluxes, high mass flux (G = 333 kg/m2s) and all heat fluxes, and moderate mass fluxes (G = 224kg/m2s) under low and moderate heat fluxes (q″<110 W/cm2 for G = 224 kg/m2s), which was a feature of nucleate boiling mechanism. Pressure drop through microchannels heat sink was found to be below 4kPa.


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