... carried out on micro/mesoscale combustor-powered thermoelectric generators (MCP-TEG) to evaluate the influence of different types of heat sinks on the cold side of MCP-TEG. The micro/mesoscale combustor was connected with Bi 2 Te 3 based TEG1-12708 thermoelectric modules from both sides along with a heat...

... increase. Traditional air-cooling approaches usually provide insufficient performance or require heavy and bulky heat sinks to achieve adequate thermal management. To address this problem, a novel air cooled vertically enhanced manifold microchannel system (VEMMS) was developed. While minimizing...

...Zheng Wei; Sun Jianjun; Niu Tao; Ma Chenbo; Yu Qiuping; Zhang Yuyan To address the impact of temperature on the normal operation and service life of high-power electronic components, a circular microchannel heat sink with cones has been designed. The cones are evenly arranged inside circular...

... evaluate the cooling effects of a heat sink (absorbent) placed within the media on the particulate and fluid and hence to obtain the relevant temperature fields for the latter. In the absence of such a source term, the solutions collapse onto the recent literature. Results clearly demonstrate how...

...Matti Lindstedt; Kaj Lampio; Reijo Karvinen Manuscript received April 1, 2014; final manuscript received February 3, 2015; published online March 17, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Giulio Lorenzini. 01 04 2014 03 02 2015 17 03 2015 Finned heat sinks are used to cool power...

.... heat spreading thermal spreading model thermal spreading resistance heat spreader heat sink heat pipe two-phase heat spreader Heat fluxes in many applications continue to increase as integrated, heat-dissipating components become more powerful and are reduced in size. This trend continues...

... Lorenzini. 29 06 2012 26 02 2013 Cooling electronic chips to satisfy the ever-increasing heat transfer demands of the electronics industry is a perpetual challenge. One approach to addressing this is through improving the heat rejection ability of air-cooled heat sinks, and nonlocal...

... and Prandtl numbers. forced convection porous medium lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) heat sink heat exchanger heat transfer One of the most applicable problems is the simulation of convection heat transfer and fluid flow in the industrial and engineering processes. There are many different...

... and the relative alignment of pores in successive fins can have a substantial effect on the heat transfer performance. lotus-type porous metal metal foam heat transfer jet impingement heat sink Metal foams are of interest for thermal engineering applications such as heat sinks because...

...Avijit Bhunia; C. L. Chen Heat transfer due to steady, laminar air flow through a curved rectangular channel with a variable cross-sectional (c/s) area is investigated computationally. Such a flow passage is formed between two fin walls of a curved fin heat sink with a 90 deg bend, used in avionics...

.... Pareto chart for a pin fin heat sink Optimum geometric parameters for a staggered pin fin geometry (Hu [( 29 )]) To increase the performance of a plane fin heat sink, the flat surfaces of the fins could be augmented to have a greater heat transfer coefficient and a correspondingly higher...

...Hamid Reza Seyf; Mohammad Layeghi A numerical analysis of forced convective heat transfer from an elliptical pin fin heat sink with and without metal foam inserts is conducted using three-dimensional conjugate heat transfer model. The pin fin heat sink model consists of six elliptical pin rows...

... 16 10 2008 convection flow through porous media graphite metal foams porous materials convection heat sink metal foam graphite foam Metal and graphite foams are a relatively new class of porous media characterized by having relatively high solid-phase conductivities...

... Ratio Micro Pin Fins ,” ASME J. Fluids Eng. 0098-2202 10.1115/1.1900139 , 127 ( 3 ), pp. 419 – 430 . Peles , Y. , Koşar , A. , Mishra , C. , Kuo , C.-J. , and Schneider , B. , 2005 , “ Forced Convective Heat Transfer Across a Pin Fin Micro Heat Sink ,” Int. J. Heat Mass...

... throughout the entire Nu ave , exp range. coolants cooling heat sinks microfluidics micro-pin-fins heat sink liquid cooling single phase heat transfer Breakthrough in many cutting-edge technologies is increasingly dependent on the availability of highly efficient...

... considered in all cases is a 42 × 42 mm 2 base with a TCE height of 25 mm . An electrical heater at the heat sink base is used to simulate the heat generation in electronic chips. Various volumetric fractions of TCE in the conglomerate of PCM and TCE are considered. The case with 8% TCE volume fraction...

...W. H. Shih; F. C. Chou; W. H. Hsieh This study investigates the heat transfer characteristics of aluminum-foam heat sinks with restricted flow outlets under impinging-jet flow conditions. An annular flow-restricting mask is used to control the height of the flow outlet of the aluminum foam sink...

... fins, to the heated surface. In the current work, spray cooling of high-aspect-ratio open microchannels was explored, which substantially increases the total surface area and allows more residence time for the incoming liquid to be heated by the wall. Five such heat sinks were constructed...

... for use in analyzing boiling heat transfer in microchannel flows. 21 08 2006 14 12 2006 boiling convection mass transfer microchannel flow microchannels boiling high heat flux heat sink Boiling heat transfer in microchannel heat sinks has attracted significant...

... at higher Reynolds numbers existing correlations predicted the results moderately well. Endwall effects, which diminish at high Reynolds numbers, and a delay in flow separation for compact pin fins were attributed to the obtained trend. 03 03 2005 08 08 2005 microfluidics heat sinks...