Study of heat transfer enhancement in a nanofluid-cooled miniature heat sink |
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Authors: | Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi Seyyed Abdolreza FazeliHootan Zirakzadeh Mehdi Ashjaee |
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Affiliation: | School of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran |
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Abstract: | This paper reports numerical solution for thermally developing temperature profile and analytical solution for fully developed velocity profile in a miniature plate fin heat sink with SiO2–water nanofluid as coolant. The flow regime is laminar and Reynolds number varies between 0 and 800. The heat sink is modeled using porous medium approach. Modified Darcy equation for fluid flow and the two-equation model for heat transfer between the solid and fluid phases are employed to predict the local heat transfer coefficient in heat sink. Results show that the nanofluid-cooled heat sink outperforms the water-cooled one, having a considerable higher heat transfer coefficient. The effects of channel aspect ratio and porosity on heat transfer coefficient of the heat sink are studied in detail. Based on the results of our analysis, it is found that an increase in the aspect ratio or the porosity of the plate fin heat sink enhances the heat transfer coefficient. |
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Keywords: | Miniature plate fin heat sink Nanofluid Porous medium Modified Darcy equation Two equation model Aspect ratio Porosity |
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