The role of fin geometry in heat sink performance

Advances in Electronic Packaging

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 279-286

  Khan, Waqar A ^a   Culham, J R ^a   Yovanovich, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; DRAG; ENTROPY; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); HEAT RESISTANCE; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

ELLIPTICAL FIN PLATES; ENTROPY GENERATION RATE; AXIS RATIO; COMBINED EFFECT; DIMENSIONLESS VARIABLES; FIN GEOMETRY; FLUID PERFORMANCE; GENERAL EXPRESSION; MINIMUM ENTROPY; PIN-FINS; RECTANGULAR PLATES; THERMAL RESISTANCE;

HEAT SINKS; GEOMETRY;

EID: 1242287429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ipack2003-35014     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (19)

1. Behnia, M., Copeland, D., and Soodphadakee, D., 1998, "A Comparison of Heat Sink Geometries for Laminar Forced Convection," Proceedings of The Sixth Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, Seattle, Washington, USA, May 27-30, pp. 310-315.
2. Bejan, A., "Entropy Generation Minimization," CRC Press, New York, 1996.
3. Bejan, A., "Convection Heat Transfer," Wiley, New York, 1984.
4. Bird, R. B., Stewart, W. E., and Lightfoot, E. N., "Transport Phenomena," Wiley, New York, 1994.
5. Chapman, C. L., Lee, S., and Schmidt, B. L., 1994, "Thermal Performance of an elliptical Pin Fin Heat Sink," Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE Semi-Therm Symposium, pp. 24-31.
6. Drake, R. M. Jr., Seban, R. A., Doughty, D. L., and Levy, S., 1953, "Local Heat Transfer Coefficients on the Surface of an Elliptical Cylinder, Axis Ratio 1:3, in a High-Speed Air Stream," Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 75, pp. 1291-1302.
7. Guyer, E. C., "Handbook of Applied Thermal Design," McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1989.
8. Hoerner, S. F., "Fluid-Dynamic Drag," Published by the Author, 1958.
9. Lamb, H., "Hydrodynamics," 6th Edition, Cambridge, 1957.
10. Jakob, M., "Heat Transfer," John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 1, 1949.
11. Li, Q., Chen, Z., Flechtner, U., and Warnecke, H. J., 1998, "Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Characteristics in Rectangular Channels with Elliptical Pin Fins," International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, V 19, pp. 245-250.
12. Metzger, D. E., Fan, C. S., and Haley, S. W., 1984, "Effects of Pin Shape and Array Orientation on Heat Transfer and Pressure Loss in Pin Fin Arrays," Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 106, pp. 252-257.
13. Poulikakos, A. and Bejan, A., 1982, "Fin Geometry for Minimum Entropy Generation in Forced Convection," Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 104, pp. 616-623.
14. Refai-Ahmed, G. and Yovanovich, M. M., 1997, "Experimental Study of Forced Convection from Isothermal Circular and Square Cylinders, and Toroids," Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 119, February, pp. 70-79.
15. Schubauer, G. B., "Air Flow in the Boundary Layer of an Elliptical Cylinder," T. R. No. 652, N. A. C. A., 1939.
16. Smits, A. J., "A Physical Introduction to Fluid Mechanics," Wiley, New York, 1999.
17. Ota, T., Aiba, S., Tsuruta, T., and Kaga, M., 1983, "Forced Convection Heat Transfer from an Elliptical Cylinder," Bulletin of the JSME, Vol. 26, No. 212, pp. 262-267.
18. Ota, T., Nishiyama, H., and Taoka, Y., 1984, "Heat Transfer and Flow Around an Elliptical Cylinder," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 27, No. 10, pp. 1771-1779.
19. Wirtz, R. A., Sohal, R., and Wang, H., 1997, "Thermal Performance of Pin-Fin Fan-Sink Assemblies," Journal of Electronic Packaging, Vol. 119, No.1, pp. 26-31.