Modeling and simulation of a parallel plate heat sink using computational fluid dynamics

Desktop computers have changed to accommodate increasing power, approaching 100 W. Heat dissipation becomes a significant issue in efficiency promotion and stable operation of air-cooled microelectronics and power electronics components and assemblies. Finned heat sinks are commonly used devices for enhancing heat transfer from air-cooled microelectronics and power electronics components and assemblies. The use of finned heat sinks increases the effective surface area for convective heat transfer, reducing the thermal resistance and operating temperatures in air-cooled electronics. The task of selecting the best heat sink for a particular application from the hundreds of configurations available from the various manufacturers can be a formidable task for an engineer. In a typical heat sink design, the objective is to achieve target heat dissipation, while restricting the consumption of valuable resources such as mass, fan power, pressure drop, and space claim. In this research work, preliminary studies have been carried out for the performance improvement of a parallel-plate heat sink considering the various geometric parameters, such as number of fins, fin length, fin height, and base height. The modeling and simulation of the heat sink is carried out with the computational fluid dynamics package. The results are analyzed using analysis of variance and response graphs.     

基于ICEPAK仿真的散热器结构热设计研究

文中利用ICEPAK软件对多密度高功率芯片散热器结构进行了热设计研究。研究确立了影响翅片散热器散热性能的关键尺寸设计参数,如基板厚度、翅片高度、翅片厚度和翅片间距等,并得出了各尺寸设计参数对其散热效果的影响趋势,确定了散热器结构的最佳布局方案。此外,研究还建立了最佳布局的散热器结构实物并进行了高低温试验以模拟其高温散热情况。通过实验数据对比发现,仿真计算结果与实际较为吻合,进而验证了ICEPAK软件在电子设备散热设计方面的准确性与可靠性。     

矩形肋片散热器几何参数对散热的影响分析

为考察矩形肋片散热器几何参数对散热效果的影响规律,文中应用热仿真分析软件Flotherm对矩形肋片散热器在不同结构参数下的模型进行了自然对流散热计算,通过对比分析不同模型的温度和热阻计算结果,探讨了散热器基板参数和肋片参数对其散热性能的影响。分析表明,改变散热器肋片的高度、长度和间距可有效降低散热器的热阻。这些几何参数可以作为散热器热设计变量,以进一步对散热器进行优化设计。     

Geometry optimization of a cylindrical fin heat sink using mine blast algorithm

The heat sinks are utilized in electronic devices to eliminate heat from the chip and efficiently transmit it to the environment. Therefore, the optimal geometry sizes of fin heat sinks are the point of concern for manufacturers and designers. For this reason, the importance of optimization techniques particularly metaheuristics is understood. The design variables are width of heat sink, number of fins, fin height, and fin diameter. The various responses that have been considered are electromagnetic emitted radiations, thermal resistance, and mass of the heat sink investigated separately and simultaneously (multi-objective). Mine blast algorithm (MBA), as a recently developed optimizer, is inspired from explosion of mines. The optimum dimensions and values for each response have been obtained by the MBA and have been compared with other optimization methods in the literature. In terms of thermal resistance and mass responses, the MBA has offered better values, while for the emitted radiations, the obtained results obtained by Taguchi-based gray relational analysis (TGRA) was preferred. For manufacturing point of view, the MBA and TGRA both suggested better and efficient design. In addition, the value path analysis has been carried out to compare the trade-off among the considered responses. Finally, parametric sensitivity analyses have been implemented for design parameters, and discussions and comparisons have been carried out for the effects of each decision variable. By considering all responses, width of heat sink and fin height are considered as the most important and effective design parameters, respectively.     

水冷盘式制动器散热结构优化

为提高水冷盘式制动器散热性能,基于强化对流传热原理,通过添加扰流柱对制动器散热结构进行优化,设计了4种扰流柱散热结构,运用CFD方法模拟制动盘流固耦合传热过程,采用Fluent软件进行热流固耦合仿真计算,获得制动盘温度特性和换热特性以及流动阻力特性,并使用综合性能评价因子对不同扰流柱散热结构进行评价。结果表明:通过在安装盘水槽内添加扰流柱可以有效地提高水冷盘式制动器的散热效果;在相同的工作条件下,正三角形扰流柱散热结构的盘面温度最低,平均努塞尔数与流动阻力最高,其综合散热性能较圆形、椭圆形以及水滴形扰流柱散热结构分别提高了3.4%,2.4%和4.4%,较无扰流柱散热结构提高了6.7%,正三角形扰流柱散热结构具有更好的综合散热性能。研究结果为水冷盘式制动器散热结构的优化设计提供了参考。     

大容量电力电子装置中板式水冷散热器的优化设计

为提高水冷散热器的散热能力、控制其温度均匀性,在散热器外形尺寸及流量一定的条件下,从理论上对层流范围内平板式水冷散热器的三个通道参数(通道数、散热片高度、散热片占空比)与散热器量纲一散热热阻的变化关系进行了推导。提出可根据这些变化关系来对任意尺寸平板式水冷散热器的各通道参数进行优化选择,在工程设计上具有很好的指导意义,仿真和试验结果证明了方法的有效性并表明:小通道尺寸的平板式水冷散热器对于解决大热流密度器件的散热更为有效,散热效率更高;在同样的参数情况下,流量增大则散热器效率降低,应综合考虑散热器流阻和流体平均温升的控制要求来选择流量。     

矩形翅片椭圆管热交换器流动和换热特性的数值模拟

利用CFD计算方法,对矩形翅片椭圆管热交换器进行了数值模拟,得到其在不同风速下的流动和换热特性,并就椭圆管和圆管之间阻力与换热特性进行了计算比较,分析讨论了片距及管排数对阻力特性的影响,为风洞热交换器设计提供依据。     

铜铝微通道热沉的三维数值结构优化

在恒定泵功0.05 W条件下,对水冷铜基和铝基微通道热沉对流换热进行详细数值模拟和结构优化。通过将数值预测结果与前人已发表的试验结果进行对比,验证所使用的数值模型的正确性。同时讨论在恒定泵功下微通道几何结构对微通道热沉中温度分布的影响。模拟结果显示水冷铜基微通道热沉最优的几何结构参数为通道深为580μm,通道宽为90μm,通道密度为100个/cm;铝基微通道热沉最优的几何结构参数为通道深为620μm,通道宽为80μm,通道密度为100个/cm。     

均热板散热器的传热特性实验研究

为了研究通信设备不同应用场景中散热器传热性能,设计了内嵌均热板散热器、复合芯均热板散热器和金属丝网吸热芯均热板散热器３种不同类型的散热器,针对不同风速、不同放置方向（重力因素）对３种均热板散热器的传热性能进行了实验研究。实验结果表明,在不考虑重力因素的情况下,复合芯均热板散热器具有较好的传热性能,而放置方向（重力因素）对复合芯均热板散热器和单一粉末烧结吸热芯均热板散热器的传热性能影响较大,在散热器设计选型时需要重点考虑均热板散热器的实际应用场景。     

Forced air cooling by using manifold microchannel heat sinks

A study of manifold microchannel (MMC) heat sinks for forced air cooling was performed experimentally. The manifold microchannel heat sink differs from a traditional microchannel (TMC) heat sink in that the flow length is greatly reduced to a small fraction of the total length of the heat sink. In other words, the MMC heat sink features many inlet and outlet channels, alternating at a periodic distance along the length of the microchannels while the TMC heat sink features one inlet and one outlet channels. The present study primarily focused to investigate the effects of geometrical parameters on the thermal performance of the manifold microchannel heat sinks for optimal design. Also, the thermal resistances of the MMC heat sinks were compared with those of the TMC heat sinks. Experimental results showed the thermal resistances of MMC heat sinks were affected strongly by the pumping power, the microchannel width and the manifold inlet/outlet channel width, but weakly by the microchannel thickness-width ratio and the microchannel depth coorporated with the manifold inlet/outlet channel width. However, it was found that there existed the optimum values of the latter parameters. Under the optimum condition of geometrical parameters in the present study, the thermal resistance of the MMC heat sink was approximately 35% lower than that of a TMC heat sink, which clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of using a manifold.     

Shape Optimization of a plate-fin type heat sink with triangular-shaped vortex generator

In this study the optimization of plate-fin type heat sink with vortex generator for the thermal stability is performed numerically. The optimum solutions in the heat sink are obtained when the temperature rise and the pressure drop are minimized simultaneously. Thermal performance of heat sink is influenced by the heat sink shape such as the base-part fin width, lower-part fin width, and basement thickness. To acquire the optimal design variables automatically, CFD and mathematical optimization are integrated. The flow and thermal fields are predicted using the finite volume method. The optimization is carried out by means of the sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method which is widely used for the constrained nonlinear optimization problem. The results show that the optimal design variables are as follows ; B₁=2.584 mm, B₂=1.741 mm, and t=7.914 mm when the temperature rise is less than 40 K. Comparing with the initial design, the temperature rise is reduced by 4.2 K, while the pressure drop is increased by 9.43 Pa. The relationship between the pressure drop and the temperature rise is also presented to select the heat sink shape for the designers.     

基于ANSYS Icepak的热管模块设计与仿真分析

NVIDIA JETSON TX2高功率系统芯片的散热功率一般在25 W左右,一般的风扇与肋片式散热器组合的散热方式存在体积大、高度高、不方便整合在小型系统中等问题,而热管、风扇、铜鳍片散热器组合的散热方式具有高度低、体积小、传热效率高等优点。文中首先对热管模块进行结构设计;然后对热管模块设计的合理性进行计算验证,并利用ANSYS Icepak对热管模块进行热稳态仿真,发现主要芯片的温度都在要求范围内,表明设计合理;最后将热管模块装入系统进行温度测试。结果表明,主要芯片的计算、仿真与实验的温度基本一致。     

新型纵向流油冷却器传热性能及压降的试验研究

对两种不同角度的螺纹翅片管,分别在螺旋折流板及新型壳程挡板支撑下的3种结构的油冷却器进行了传热与阻力性能试验,结果表明,翅片角为5°的螺纹翅片管的传热性能比翅片角为13.5°的螺纹翅片管提高10%～30%,而流动阻力相差很小。对于同角度的螺纹翅片管油冷却器,新型阻流片壳程挡板虽然传热效果不及螺旋折流板,但是其壳程压降较螺旋折流板降低30%～40%,且单位压降下的热交换量提高10%～40%,这种结构对于大流量、长径比大且对壳程压降要求较高的油冷却器有一定的研究意义。     

CPU散热器结构设计与热分析

CPU散热器是将CPU核心热量迅速导出的关键,已成为获得新一代电子芯片的主要问题之一。采用数值模拟方法对放射状太阳花CPU散热器进行三维流场及温度场分析,探讨放射状散热器在不同的肋片形状、肋片数N和肋片厚度等各种不同的参数作用下,对于整体散热器散热和流动性能的变化与影响,同时分析了太阳花散热器自然对流和瞬时动态特性。     

Constructal design of finned tubes used in air-cooled heat exchangers

The present study documents the constructal design and optimization of finned tubes used in air-cooled heat exchangers. The considered tubes are equipped with annular fins. The aim is to minimize the overall thermal resistance by morphing the geometry. The geometrical and thermo-physical parameters considered are the number of fins, ratio of fin height to tube diameter, Stanton number, ratio of fin conductivity to air conductivity, ratio of in-tube fluid conductivity to air conductivity and dimensionless pressure drop. Two constraints are applied in the optimization process: fixed overall volume of heat exchanger and fixed volume fraction of fin material. It is found that there exist optimal values for the number and the height of fins. Moreover, the optimal heat transfer has an extremum in a special volume fraction of fin material.     

Analytical solution of non-Fourier heat conduction problem on a fin under periodic boundary conditions

Fourier and hyperbolic models of heat transfer on a fin that is subjected to a periodic boundary condition are solved analytically. The differential equation in Fourier and non-Fourier models is solved by the Laplace transform method. The temperature distribution on the fin is obtained using the residual theorem in a complex plan for the inverse Laplace transform method. The thermal shock is generated at the base of the fin, which moves toward the tip of the fin and is reflected from the tip. The current study of various parameters on the thermal shock location shows that relaxation time has a great influence on the temperature distribution on the fin. An unsteady boundary condition in the base fin caused the shock, which is generated continuously from the base and has interacted with the other reflected thermal shocks. Results of the current study show that the hyperbolic heat conduction equation can violate the second thermodynamic law under some unsteady boundary conditions.     

基于遗传算法的散热器翅片优化设计

为了设计工程约束下的高性能散热器,基于散热器热阻网络模型,建立了散热器优化目标函数,利用遗传算法对目标函数进行优化,获取了工程条件约束下散热性能最优的散热器几何参数。计算结果与商用软件仿真结果符合较好,表明文中所建模型的准确性和有效性。文中的研究为提高高性能散热器的设计能力及新产品的研发效率提供了有益参考。     

铜翅片管热水器的特性研究

以铜翅片管换热器为研究对象,通过合理的简化模型,以相邻2片换热片(取半片)及其之间的烟气通道作为计算区域,利用流体力学软件CFX对烟气通道的流动状况和换热情况进行了数值模拟。研究了管径、翅片厚度和翅片间距对排烟温度的影响,结果表明随着管径和翅片间距的增大排烟温度升高,随着翅片厚度增大排烟温度降低,排烟温度的升高或降低将影响排烟损失的大小,从而影响热效率。该数值模拟结果对改进翅片结构以提高热效率有一定指导意义。     

某数字T/R组件微通道液冷冷板的热设计

文中针对某大功率数字T/R组件局部热流密度较高的特点,提出了微通道散热模块与蛇形流道相结合的散热方式,设计了带有微通道模块的液冷冷板,通过仿真分析优化了微通道模块的几何参数,并验证了液冷冷板的散热效果。结果表明：微通道模块对散热效果改善明显,可保障电子元件工作在允许的温度范围内。该设计方式值得在局部热流密度过高的液冷冷板设计中推广应用。     

H形鳍片管传热性能的三维数值模拟计算

建立了H形鳍片管的三维物理模型,对鳍片管传热机理进行分析.利用大型通用有限元分析软件ANSYS的FLOTRAN模块,建立了热流耦合的有限元模型,对鳍片管的稳态传热过程进行了数值计算,得到了鳍片管内、外流体的温度场分布.在对鳍片高度和鳍片间距进行调整的基础上分析了高度和间距对换热效率的影响,提出了在此边界条件下对鳍片管优化的方案.