CFD Analysis of Liquid-Cooled Heatsink Using Nanofluids in Computer Processors

In this study, a computer model of the Zalman ZM-WB3 Gold heat exchanger which is one liquid-cooled processors in market has been generated and confirmed by previous researchers models experimental data. Then, fin thickness heights same type liquid fluid operates have changed. The CFD analyzes new were performed using Ansys Fluent 17.1 program. Following that, nano removal (cooling) performances investigated with rectangular exchangers different 5 mm, 5.5 mm 5.7 thicknesses 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 fluids as water, copper oxide-water (CuO-H2O) nanofluids volume ratios 2.25% 0.86%, graphene oxide (GO-H2O) nanofluid ratio 0.01%. It was concluded that best CPU cooler performance could be achieved CuO - H2O volumetric height 2.0 thickness.