Study of the thermal effectiveness of laminar forced convection of nanofluids for liquid cooling applications

IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1693-1704

  Yu, Leyuan ^a   Liu, Dong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronics cooling; Forced convection; Microchannel; Nanofluids; Polyalphaolefin

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; ELECTRONICS COOLING; HYDRODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; LAMINAR FORCED CONVECTIONS; LIQUID COOLING SYSTEMS; NANOFLUIDS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; POLYALPHAOLEFINS;

COOLING SYSTEMS; FORCED CONVECTION; MICROCHANNELS; NANOFLUIDICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

ELECTRONIC COOLING;

EID: 84885571451     PISSN: 21563950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCPMT.2013.2265261     Document Type: Article

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