Numerically Investigating the Effects of Cross-Links in Scaled Microchannel Heat Sinks

Numerical Optimization of Trapezoidal Microchannel Heat Sinks

This study presents the numerical simulation of three-dimensional incompressible steady and laminar fluid flow and conjugate heat transfer of a trapezoidal microchannel heat sink using water as a cooling fluid in a silicon substrate. Navier-Stokes equations with conjugate energy equation are discretized by finite-volume method. We perform numerical computations for a range of 50 Re 600, 0.05W ...

atural Patterns Applied to the Design of Microchannel Heat Sinks

The present work shows a study developed of the thermal and hydrodynamic behaviors present in microchannel heat sinks formed by non-conventional arrangements. These arrangements are based on patterns that nature presents. There are two postulates that model natural forms in a mathematical way: the Allometric Law and the Biomimetic Tendency. Both theories have been applied in the last few years ...

Stacked Microchannel Heat Sinks for Liquid Cooling of Microelectronics Devices

for their time and efforts in reviewing the proposals and dissertations and their helpful advices. My sincere gratitude goes to DARPA and Intel Corporation for their financial support. I would also like to thank the University of Maryland College Park for their financial support in the form of Graduate School Fellowship. I would also like to take this opportunity to express my appreciations and...

Two-phase Microchannel Heat Sinks: Theory, Applications, and Limitations

Boiling water in small channels that are formed along turbine blades has been examined since the 1970s as a means to dissipating large amounts of heat. Later, similar geometries could be found in cooling systems for computers, fusion reactors, rocket nozzles, avionics, hybrid vehicle power electronics, and space systems. This paper addresses (a) the implementation of two-phase microchannel heat...

A Study of Critical Heat Flux during Flow Boiling in Microchannel Heat Sinks