A NUMERICAL STUDY OF FORCED CONVECTIVE FLOW IN MICROCHANNELS HEAT SINKS WITH PERIODIC EXPANSION-CONSTRICTION CROSS SECTION

Abstract

This paper aims to study numerically the laminar convective heat transfer of ionized water flow inside rectangular heat sinks with periodic expansion-constriction cross-section; each heat sink consists of parallel microchannels system with 4 mm wide and 0.1 mm deep in constant cross-section segment.  Two-dimensional laminar numerical simulations, based on Navier-Stoks equations and energy equation, are obtained under the same boundary conditions for different microchannels. In this study, the heat transfer and pressure drop inside microchannels with cross-section (cylindrical grooves and triangular cavities) are compared with that of simple smooth microchannel at Reynolds number ranging from 150-1500; an increase in pressure drop of 44% for all microchannels  is observed with Reynolds number increasing.  The obtained results indicate an enhancement in Nusselt number for all microchannels at all Reynolds number values with a maximum enhancement of 36%, these ameliorated thermal parameters attribute to enhance the heat transfer efficiency of proposed microchannels. Which improve the effect of periodic expansion-constriction cross-section on the heat transfer performance for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) cooling phenomena.

 

Keywords

• Cooling Systems,Heat Transfer Enhancement,Heat Sink,Microchannels,MEMS,Cross Section

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