Comparative study of the flow and thermal performance of liquid-cooling parallel-flow and counter-flow double-layer wavy microchannel heat sinks

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 30-55

  Xie, Gongnan ^a   Chen, Zhiyong ^a   Sunden, Bengt ^b   Zhang, Weihong ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CRITERIA FOR EVALUATIONS; FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER; MICRO CHANNEL HEAT SINKS; OVERALL THERMAL RESISTANCE; STRAIGHT MICROCHANNELS; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATIO;

COOLING; FLOW RATE; HEAT RESISTANCE; HEAT SINKS; LAMINAR FLOW; LIQUIDS; MIXED CONVECTION;

PARALLEL FLOW;

EID: 84877656020     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407782.2013.773811     Document Type: Article

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