Local heat transfer distribution and effect of instabilities during flow boiling in a silicon microchannel heat sink

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 54, Issue 15-16, 2011, Pages 3179-3190

  Chen, Tailian ^a   Garimella, Suresh V ^b  

^a GONZAGA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boiling regimes; Electronics cooling; Flow boiling; Flow instability; Microchannels

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR FLOWS; BOILING REGIMES; BUBBLY FLOW; CHURN FLOW; CRITICAL HEAT FLUX; DIELECTRIC FLUID; DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE SENSOR; DOWNSTREAM REGION; DRY-OUT; ELECTRONICS COOLING; FLOW BOILING; FLOW INSTABILITIES; FLOW INSTABILITY; FLOW REGIMES; FLUX RANGES; HEAT INPUT; HIGH HEAT FLUX; INLET SUBCOOLING; LOCAL HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; LOCAL HEAT TRANSFER DISTRIBUTION; PARALLEL MICROCHANNELS; SILICON MICROCHANNEL HEAT SINKS; SINGLE PHASE LIQUID FLOW; SLUG FLOW; SUBSTANTIAL VARIATIONS; UPSTREAM REGION;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); ELECTRONIC COOLING; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW RATE; HEAT FLUX; HEAT SINKS; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; LIQUIDS; MICROCHANNELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PRESSURE DROP; TABLE LOOKUP;

INLET FLOW;

EID: 79956191067     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.04.012     Document Type: Article

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