Experimental investigation and flow visualization to determine the optimum dimension range of microgap heat sinks

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 55, Issue 25-26, 2012, Pages 7623-7634

  Alam, Tamanna ^a   Lee, Poh Seng ^a   Yap, Christopher R ^a   Jin, Liwen ^a   Balasubramanian, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Confinement effect; Flow boiling; Flow visualization; Instabilities; Microgap heat sink

Indexed keywords

BOILING FLOWS; BUBBLE CHARACTERISTICS; BUBBLY FLOW; CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; DRY-OUT; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLOW BOILING; FLOW REGIMES; GAP SIZE; HEAT TRANSFER AND PRESSURE DROP; HEAT TRANSFER AND PRESSURE DROP CHARACTERISTICS; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; HIGH CAPACITY; HIGH-SPEED FLOW VISUALIZATION; MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES; MICRO GAPS; ON FLOW; OPTIMUM DIMENSIONS; PHYSICAL CONFINEMENT; PRESSURE FLUCTUATION; WALL TEMPERATURES;

DEIONIZED WATER; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT SINKS; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PRESSURE DROP; SPECIFIC HEAT; STABILITY;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84867509993     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2012.07.080     Document Type: Article

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