Gravity effects in microgap flow boiling
| Autor: | Avram Bar-Cohen, Franklin Robinson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Materials science
Critical heat flux Mechanical engineering 02 engineering and technology Mechanics Heat transfer coefficient 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Thermal conduction 01 natural sciences 010305 fluids & plasmas Heat flux Heat generation Boiling 0103 physical sciences Heat transfer 0210 nano-technology Evaporator |
| Zdroj: | 2017 16th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm). |
| Popis: | Increasing integration density of electronic components has exacerbated the thermal management challenges facing electronic system developers. The high power, heat flux, and volumetric heat generation of emerging devices are driving the transition from remote cooling, which relies on conduction and spreading, to embedded cooling, which facilitates direct contact between the heat-generating device and coolant flow. Microgap coolers employ the forced flow of dielectric fluids undergoing phase change in a heated channel between devices. While two-phase microcoolers are used routinely in ground-based systems, the lack of acceptable models and correlations for microgravity operation has limited their use for spacecraft thermal management. Previous research has revealed that gravitational acceleration plays a diminishing role as the channel diameter shrinks, but there is considerable variation among the proposed gravity-insensitive channel dimensions and minimal research on rectangular ducts. Reliable criteria for achieving gravity-insensitive flow boiling performance would enable spaceflight systems to exploit this powerful thermal management technique and reduce development time and costs through reliance on ground-based testing. In the present effort, the authors have studied the effect of evaporator orientation on flow boiling performance of HFE7100 in a 218 pm tall by 13.0 mm wide microgap cooler. Similar heat transfer coefficients and critical heat flux were achieved across five evaporator orientations, indicating that the effect of gravity was negligible. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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