Convective Cooling of Semiconductors Using a Nanofluid

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-98
Author(s):  
Juan Cepeda-Rizo ◽  
Jeremiah Gayle ◽  
Joshua Ravich
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1998 ◽  
Vol 120 (4) ◽  
pp. 840-857 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. P. Dyko ◽  
K. Vafai

A heightened awareness of the importance of natural convective cooling as a driving factor in design and thermal management of aircraft braking systems has emerged in recent years. As a result, increased attention is being devoted to understanding the buoyancy-driven flow and heat transfer occurring within the complex air passageways formed by the wheel and brake components, including the interaction of the internal and external flow fields. Through application of contemporary computational methods in conjunction with thorough experimentation, robust numerical simulations of these three-dimensional processes have been developed and validated. This has provided insight into the fundamental physical mechanisms underlying the flow and yielded the tools necessary for efficient optimization of the cooling process to improve overall thermal performance. In the present work, a brief overview of aircraft brake thermal considerations and formulation of the convection cooling problem are provided. This is followed by a review of studies of natural convection within closed and open-ended annuli and the closely related investigation of inboard and outboard subdomains of the braking system. Relevant studies of natural convection in open rectangular cavities are also discussed. Both experimental and numerical results obtained to date are addressed, with emphasis given to the characteristics of the flow field and the effects of changes in geometric parameters on flow and heat transfer. Findings of a concurrent numerical and experimental investigation of natural convection within the wheel and brake assembly are presented. These results provide, for the first time, a description of the three-dimensional aircraft braking system cooling flow field.


Author(s):  
Thomas E. Dyson ◽  
Dave G. Bogard ◽  
Justin D. Piggush ◽  
Atul Kohli

Overall effectiveness, φ, for a simulated turbine blade leading edge was experimentally measured using a model constructed with a relatively high conductivity material selected so that the Biot number of the model matched engine conditions. The model incorporated three rows of cylindrical holes with the center row positioned on the stagnation line. Internally the model used an impingement cooling configuration. Overall effectiveness was measured for pitch variation from 7.6d to 9.6d for blowing ratios ranging from 0.5 to 3.0, and angle of attack from −7.7° to +7.7°. Performance was evaluated for operation with a constant overall mass flow rate of coolant. Consequently when increasing the pitch, the blowing ratio was increased proportionally. The increased blowing ratio resulted in increased impingement cooling internally and increased convective cooling through the holes. The increased internal and convective cooling compensated, to a degree, for the decreased coolant coverage with increased pitch. Performance was evaluated in terms of laterally averaged φ, but also in terms of the minimum φ. The minimum φ evaluation revealed localized hot spots which are arguably more critical to turbine blade durability than the laterally averaged results. For small increases in pitch there was negligible decrease in performance.


Author(s):  
Long-gang Liu ◽  
Chun-wei Gu ◽  
Xiao-dong Ren

Convective cooling channels are applied in a two-dimensional compressor vane to use the intercooling method to improve the efficiency of Brayton cycle and reduce the temperature of the vane. In this paper, we analyze the effect of coolant to the aerodynamic performance and heat transfer performance of the main stream and the vane. For the case of a two-dimensional compressor vane NACA65-(12A2I8b)10, the vane which has five convective cooling channels has been numerically simulated in different test conditions by discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method. The coolant is supercritical carbon dioxide whose pressure is 10MPa. Conjugate heat transfer method has been used in this paper. The numerical simulation result is similar to the experiment data and has been compared with the result of the vane without cooling channels to prove the effect of cooling channels. Cooling channels have large effect on the distribution of temperature and heat transfer coefficient. In addition, the relationship between Nu and Re on the fluid-solid interface has been analyzed and a suitable empirical equation has been obtained. This work analyzes the effect of intercooling system in the compressor and give several advice on future engineering applications in aero engines and gas turbines.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilin Liu ◽  
Jing Liu

Abstract The increasingly high power density of today's electronic devices requires the cooling techniques to produce highly effective heat dissipation performance with as little sacrifice as possible to the system compactness. Among the currently available thermal management schemes, the convective liquid metal cooling provides considerably high performance due to their unique thermal properties. This paper firstly reviews the studies on convective cooling using low-melting-point metals published in the past few decades. A group of equations for the thermophysical properties of In-Ga-Sn eutectic alloy is then documented by rigorous literature examination, following by a section of correlations for the heat transfer and flow resistance calculation to partially facilitate the designing work at the current stage. The urgent need to investigate the heat transfer and flow resistance of forced convection of low-melting-point metals in small/mini-channels, typical in compact electronic devices, is carefully argued. Some special aspects pertaining to the practical application of this cooling technique, including the entrance effect, mixed convection, and compact liquid metal heat exchanger design, are also discussed. Finally, future challenges and prospects are outlined.


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