Optimal thermal design of microchannel heat sinks with different geometric configurations

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1572-1577

  Hung, Tu Chieh ^a   Sheu, Tsung Sheng ^a   Yan, Wei Mon ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TAINAN   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Geometric configuration; Microchannel heat sink (MCHS); Optimization; Simplified conjugate gradient method (SCGM)

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CONFIGURATION; CHANNEL WIDTHS; GEOMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; INITIAL GUESS; MICRO CHANNEL HEAT SINKS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL THERMAL DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; OPTIMIZERS; OVERALL THERMAL RESISTANCE; PARALLEL CHANNEL; PROBLEM SOLVERS; PUMPING POWER; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL;

ASPECT RATIO; GEOMETRY; GRADIENT METHODS; HEAT RESISTANCE; HEAT SINKS; OPTIMIZATION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DESIGN;

EID: 84869192703     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2012.10.008     Document Type: Article

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