Cooling Performance Analysis of Water-Cooled Heat Sinks with Circular and Rectangular Minichannels Using Finite Volume Method

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1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Babol University of Technology, P.O. Box 484, Babol, I.R. IRAN

2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Golestan University, P.O. Box 155, Gorgan, I.R. IRAN

Abstract

In this paper, the cooling performance of water-cooled heat sinks for heat dissipation from electronic components is investigated numerically. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations are carried out to study the rectangular and circular cross-sectional shaped heat sinks. The sectional geometry of channels affects the flow and heat transfer characteristics of minichannel heat sinks. The three-dimensional governing equations in steady state and laminar flow are solved using Finite Volume Method (FVM) with the SIMPLE algorithm. The results show that the numerical simulation is in good agreement with the experimental data. The thermal and hydrodynamic characteristics of the heat sinks including Nusselt number, friction factor, thermal resistance and pumping power for various geometries of heat sinks are discussed in details. The results indicate that the heat sink with rectangular cross-section has a better heat transfer rate and the circular channel heat sink has the lower pumping power.

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Iranian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Volume 37, Issue 2 - Serial Number 88
March and April 2018
Pages 231-239

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