Constructal design and thermal analysis of microchannel heat sinks with multistage bifurcations in single-phase liquid flow

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 791-802

  Xie, Gongnan ^a   Zhang, Fengli ^a   Sundén, Bengt ^b   Zhang, Weihong ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Laminar flow; Microchannel heat sink; Multistage bifurcations; Numerical simulation; Thermal performance

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT RESISTANCE; HEAT TRANSFER; LAMINAR FLOW; MICROCHANNELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMOANALYSIS;

COMPUTATION FLUID DYNAMICS; MICRO CHANNEL HEAT SINKS; OVERALL THERMAL RESISTANCE; SINGLE PHASE LIQUID FLOW; STRAIGHT MICROCHANNELS; THERMAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; UNIFORM WALL HEAT FLUX;

HEAT SINKS;

EID: 84896463662     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2013.10.042     Document Type: Article

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