Energy efficient hotspot-targeted embedded liquid cooling of electronics

Applied Energy

Volumn 138, Issue , 2015, Pages 414-422

  Sharma, Chander Shekhar ^a   Tiwari, Manish K ^a   Zimmermann, Severin ^a   Brunschwiler, Thomas ^b   Schlottig, Gerd ^b   Michel, Bruno ^b   Poulikakos, Dimos ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electronics cooling; Energy efficient computing; Hotspot targeted cooling; Hotspots; Microchannel cooling; Multicore microprocessors

Indexed keywords

COOLANTS; COOLING SYSTEMS; DESIGN; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HEAT FLUX; LIQUIDS; MICROCHANNELS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PUMPS;

ELECTRONICS COOLING; ENERGY EFFICIENT COMPUTING; HOT SPOT; HOTSPOTS; MICROCHANNEL COOLING; MULTI CORE;

ELECTRONIC COOLING;

COOLING; DESIGN; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEAT FLUX; PRESSURE DROP;

EID: 84910010982     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.10.068     Document Type: Article

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