Performance of a polymeric heat sink with circular microchannels

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 8-9, 2006, Pages 787-794

  Barba, Alessandro ^a   Musi, Barbara ^a   Spiga, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conjugate; Gas flow; Micro heat sinks; Polymeric materials; Thermal resistance

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; HEAT RESISTANCE; HEAT TRANSFER; LAMINAR FLOW; POLYMERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

CONJUGATE; GAS FLOW; MICRO HEAT SINKS; RAYLEIGH-RITZ-GALERKIN METHOD;

HEAT SINKS;

EID: 29244450158     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2005.10.015     Document Type: Article

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