Flow and heat transfer in porous micro heat sink for thermal management of high power LEDs

A novel porous micro heat sink system is presented for thermal management of high power LEDs, which has high heat transport capability. The operational principle and heat transfer characteristics of porous micro heat sink are analyzed. Numerical model for the micro heat sink is developed to describe liquid flow and heat transfer based on the local thermal equilibrium of porous media, and it is solved with SIMPLE algorithm. The numerical results show that the heated surface temperature of porous micro heat sink is low at high heat fluxes and is much less than the bearable temperature level of LED chips. The heat transfer coefficient of heat sink is very high, and increasing the liquid velocity can enhance the average heat transfer coefficient. The overall pressure loss of heat sink system increases with the increasing the inlet velocity, but the overall pressure drop is much less than the pumping pressure provided by micro pump. The micro heat sink has good performance for thermal management of high power LEDs, and it can improve the reliability and life of LEDs.     

U- and L-shaped heat pipes heat sinks for cooling electronic components employed a least square smoothing method

Heat pipes-heat sink modules transfer heat from a heat source to the heat pipes, and then to the heat sink and out into the surrounding ambient, and are suitable for cooling electronic components through a forced convection mechanism. The configuration and thermal performance of the heat sinks with inserted heat pipes were studied in the present paper. This article uses experimental procedures to investigate the thermal performance of two embedded U-shaped heat pipe and six embedded L-shaped heat pipe thermal modules with different fan speeds and heat source areas. And via the superposition method and least-square estimators in experimental data, the performance curves of individual U- and L-shaped heat pipes were derived and predicted. Results show that the lowest thermal resistances of U- and L-shaped heat pipe-heat sinks are respectively 0.246 °C/W and 0.166 °C/W given dual fans operating at 3000RPM and 30 × 30 mm² heat sources. Results for a single U-shaped heat pipe are 0.04 °C/W at 78.85 W, while sequential results for L-shaped heat pipes are 1.04 °C/W, 2.07 °C/W, 2.76 °C/W, 2.19 °C/W and 1.7 °C/W between 34 W and 40 W.     

Design of vertical fin arrays with heat pipes used for high-power light-emitting diodes

As Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are negatively affected by high temperature, the thermal design for them is critical for better light quality, reliability and lifetime. In this work, a thermal design of vertical fin arrays with heat pipes as passive cooling was applied. The heat pipes can supply high thermal conductivity with much less weight and volume compared to copper or aluminum base and consequently less obstruction to air flow with enhanced natural convection. As the natural convection and radiation dominate heat transfer in this case, the optimum vertical fin spacing was calculated by the most used empirical correlations. Then, the design was numerical investigated by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to obtain best thermal performance. As the fin spacing was both optimized by correlations and modelling, the optimum thermal design achieved. Finally, we manufactured and tested the design experimentally which consistently approved the thermal design compared to correlations and simulation.     

高功率轴快流CO2激光器激励源热沉结构优化设计

为了提高激励源的热稳定性,保证4kW轴快流CO₂激光器的光束质量,采用计算流体动力学的方法,理论分析了激光器激励源热沉的散热机理,对热流密度为106W/m2、面积为16cm2的激励源热沉结构进行了优化设计。结果表明,经过优化之后的热沉其表面的最高温度低于340K,完全能够满足激光器正常工作时激励源核心功率MOSFET对散热指标的要求;同时经过数值模拟得到了带凹槽微通道热沉的优化结构尺寸,分别是微通道凹槽间距P=0.6mm,微通道凹槽倾角θ=45°,微通道凹槽交错距离s=0.1mm,同时当雷诺数Re=546.9时,热沉有最优的散热效果,激光输出功率的稳定度可以控制在±2%以内。此研究为设计具有高效散热能力的微通道热沉提供了理论指导。