Numerical evaluation of flow and heat transfer in plate-pin fin heat sinks with various pin cross-sections

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 107-128

  Zhou, Feng ^a,b   Catton, Ivan ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CFD SOFTWARES; FIN HEAT SINKS; FINITE VOLUME; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRAULIC PERFORMANCE; NUMERICAL EVALUATIONS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PLATE FINS; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER STOKES SOLVERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; SHEAR FLOW;

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE);

EID: 79960719394     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2011.588574     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. R. W. Knight, J. S. Goodling, and D. J. Hall, Optimal Thermal Design of Forced Convection Heat Sinks-Analytical, J. Electronic Packaging, vol. 113, no. 3, pp. 313-321, 1991. (Pubitemid 21707471)
2. R. W. Knight, D. J. Hall, J. S. Goodling, and R. C. Jaeger, Heat Sink Optimization with Application to Microchannels, Components, Hybrids, and Manufacturing Tech., IEEE Trans., vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 832-842, 1992.
3. R. W. Knight, J. S. Goodling, and B. E. Gross, Optimal Thermal Design of Air Cooled Forced Convection Finned Heat Sinks-Experimental Verification, Components, Hybrids, and Manufacturing Techn., IEEE Transa., vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 754-760, 1992.
4. P. Teertstra, M. M. Yovanovich, and J. R. Culham, Analytical Forced Convection Modeling of Plate Fin Heat Sinks, J. Electronics Manufacturing, vol. 10, Compendex, pp. 253-261, 2000. (Pubitemid 34504433)
5. D. Copeland, Optimization of Parallel Plate Heatsinks for Forced Convection, Proc. Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium, Compendex, pp. 266-272, IEEE, San Jose, CA, USA, 2000.
6. J. R. Culham and Y. S. Muzychka, Optimization of Plate Fin Heat Sinks using Entropy Generation Minimization, Components and Packaging Technologies, IEEE Trans., vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 159-165, 2001. (Pubitemid 32609748)
7. M. Iyengar and A. Bar-Cohen, Least-Energy Optimization of Forced Convection Plate-Fin Heat Sinks, Components and Packaging Technologies, IEEE Trans., vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 62-70, 2003.
8. K.-T. Chiang, Optimization of the Design Parameters of Parallel-Plain Fin. Heat Sink Module Cooling Phenomenon Based on the Taguchi Method, Int. Commu. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 32, no. 9, pp. 1193-1201, 2005. (Pubitemid 41403654)
9. E. M. Sparrow, J. W. Ramsey, and C. A. C. Altemani, Experiments on In-Line Pin Fin Arrays and Performance Comparisons with Staggered Arrays, J. Heat Transfer, vol. 102, no. 1, pp. 44-50, 1980. (Pubitemid 10464201)
10. E. M. Sparrow and S. S. Kang, Longitudinally-Finned Cross-Flow Tube Banks and their Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Characteristics, Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 339-350, 1985. (Pubitemid 15479644)
11. E. M. Sparrow and V. B. Grannis, Pressure Drop Characteristics of Heat Exchangers Consisting of Arrays of Diamond-Shaped Pin Fins, Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 589-600, 1991.
12. C. L. Chapman, S. Lee, and B. L. Schmidt, Thermal Performance of an Elliptical Pin Fin Heat Sink, Proc. IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement & Management Symposium, pp. 24-31, IEEE, San Jose, CA, USA, 1994.
13. Q. Li, Z. Chen, U. Flechtner, et al., Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Characteristics in Rectangular Channels with Elliptic Pin Fins, Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 245-250, 1998. (Pubitemid 28484267)
14. K.-S. Yang, W.-H. Chu, I.-Y. Chen, et al., A Comparative Study of the Airside Performance of Heat Sinks Having Pin Fin Configurations, Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 50, no. 23-24, pp. 4661-4667, 2007. (Pubitemid 47487467)
15. A. Horvat and I. Catton, Numerical Technique for Modeling Conjugate Heat Transfer in an Electronic Device Heat Sink, Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 2155-2168, 2003. (Pubitemid 36374758)
16. A. Horvat and B. Mavko, Hierarchic Modeling of Heat Transfer Processes in Heat Exchangers, Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 361-371, 2005. (Pubitemid 39554005)
17. K. Park, D.-H. Choi, and K.-S. Lee, Numerical Shape Optimization for High Performance of a Heat Sink with Pin-Fins, Numer. Heat Transfer A, vol. 46, no. 9, pp. 909-927, 2004.
18. H.-T. Chen, P.-L. Chen, J.-T. Horng, and Y.-H. Hung, Design Optimization for Pin-Fin Heat Sinks, J. Electronic Packaging, vol. 127, no. 4, pp. 397-406, 2005. (Pubitemid 43017464)
19. W. A. Khan, J. R. Culham, and M. M. Yovanovich, Optimization of Pin-Fin Heat Sinks using Entropy Generation Minimization, Components and Packaging Technologies, IEEE Tran., vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 247-254, 2005. (Pubitemid 40871075)
20. W. A. Khan, J. R. Culham, and M. M. Yovanovich, Optimization of Pin-Fin Heat Sinks in Bypass Flow using Entropy Generation Minimization Method, J. Electronic Packaging, vol. 130, no. 3, pp. 031010-7, 2008.
21. K.-T. Chiang and F.-P. Chang, Application of Response Surface Methodology in the Parametric Optimization of a Pin-Fin Type Heat Sink, Int. Comm. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 33, no. 7, pp. 836-845, 2006. (Pubitemid 43986336)
22. K.-T. Chiang, F.-P. Chang, and T.-C. Tsai, Optimum Design Parameters of Pin-Fin Heat Sink using the Grey-Fuzzy Logic Based on the Orthogonal Arrays, Intl. Comm. Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 744-752, 2006. (Pubitemid 43793073)
23. H. Jonsson and B. Moshfegh, Modeling of the Thermal, and Hydraulic Performance of Plate Fin, Strip Fin, and Pin Fin Heat Sinks-Influence of Flow Bypass, Components and Packaging Technologies, IEEE Trans., vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 142-149, 2001. (Pubitemid 32609746)
24. D. Soodphakdee, M. Behnia, and D. W. Copeland, A Comparison of Fin Geometries for Heatsinks in Laminar Forced Convection: Part I-Round, Elliptical, and Plate Fins in Staggered, and In-Line Configurations, Int. J. Microcircuits and Electronic Packaging, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 68-76, 2001.
25. S. J. Kim, D.-K. Kim, and H. H. Oh, Comparison of Fluid Flow and Thermal Characteristics of Plate-Fin and Pin-Fin Heat Sinks Subject to a Parallel Flow, Heat Transfer Eng., vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 169-177, 2008.
26. X. L. Yu, Q. K. Feng, and Q. P. Liu, Research on the Heat Transfer and Flow Performance of a Composite Heat Sink, J Xi'an Jiaotong Univ., vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 670-673, 2003.
27. X. L. Yu, Q. K. Feng, and J. M. Feng, Research on Thermal Performance of Plate-Pin Fin Heat Sink, J Xi'an Jiaotong Univ., vol. 38, no. 11, pp. 1114-1118, 2004.
28. X. Yu, J. Feng, Q. Feng, and Q. Wang, Development of a Plate-Pin Fin Heat Sink and its Performance Comparisons with a Plate Fin Heat Sink, App. Ther. Eng., vol. 25, no. 2-3, pp. 173-182, 2005.
29. Y.-T. Yang and H.-S. Peng, Numerical Study of Thermal and Hydraulic Performance of Compound Heat Sink, Numer. Heat Transfer A, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 432-447, 2009.
30. Y.-T. Yang and H.-S. Peng, Investigation of Planted Pin Fins for Heat Transfer Enhancement in Plate Fin Heat Sink, Microelectronics Reliability, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 163-169, 2009.
31. N. E. Jacobs, Tests of Six Symmetrical Airfoils in the Variable Density Wind Tunnel, NASA Report no. 385, NASA, Washington, D. C., 1931.
32. N. E. Jacobs, K. E. Ward, and R. M. Pinkerton, The Characteristics of 78 Related Airfoil Sections from Tests in the Variable-Density Wind Tunnel, NASA Report no. 460, NASA, Washington, D. C., 1933.
33. J. Moran, An Introduction to Theoretical and Computational Aerodynamics, chap. 4, Dover Publications, New York, 2003.
34. J. D. Anderson, Governing Equations of Fluid Dynamics, In J. D. Anderson, G. E. Degrez, J. Degroote, et al. (eds.), Computational Fluid Dynamics, 3rd ed., chap. 2, Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2009.
35. B. R. Baliga and N. Atabaki, Control-Volume-Based Finite-Difference, and Finite-Element Methods, In W. J. Minkowycz, E. M. Sparrow, J. Y. Murthy (eds.), Handbook of Numerical Heat Transfer, 2nd ed., chap. 6, Wiley, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2009.
36. S. V. Patankar, Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, chap. 2, Hemisphere Publishing Corp., Washington, D. C., 1980.
37. F. R. Menter and T. Esch, Elements of Industrial Heat Transfer Predictions, Proc. 16th Bazilian Congress of Mechanical Engineering (COBEM), Uberlandia, Brazil, 2001.
38. J. E. Bardina, P. G. Huang, and T. J. Coakley, Turbulence Modeling Validation, Testing, and Development, NASA Technical Memorandum, Moffett Field, CA, 1997.
39. F. R. Menter, Two-Equation Eddy-Viscosity Turbulence Models for Engineering Applications, AIAA J., vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 1598-1605, 1994. (Pubitemid 283214)
40. F. R. Menter, M. Kuntz, and R. Langtry, Ten Years of Industrial Experience with the SST Turbulence Model, Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 4, pp. 625-632, 2003.
41. Ansys CFX-12.1, Ansys Inc., Canonsburg, PA, 2009.