Recent advances in thermal modeling of micro-evaporators for cooling of microprocessors

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages 1583-1592

  Thome, John R ^a   Revellin, Rémi ^b   Agostini, Bruno ^a   Park, Jung Eung ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; EVAPORATORS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW PATTERNS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MICROCHANNELS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BUBBLE COALESCENCE; FLOW BOILING HEAT TRANSFER; LOW PRESSURE REFRIGERANTS; MICRO EVAPORATORS; MINIMIZING ENERGY; MULTI MICROCHANNELS; TWO-PHASE PRESSURE DROPS; WORKING TEMPERATURES; MICRO-EVAPORATORS; THERMAL MODELING;

TWO PHASE FLOW; EVAPORATORS;

EID: 44249094911     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2007-42900     Document Type: Conference Paper

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