...THERMAL-FLUID ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION OF MICRO-SCALE HEAT SINKS WITH SLIP BOUNDARY CONDITION USING ENTROPY GENERATION MINIMIZATION METHOD Mahyar Pourghasemi, Nima Fathi University of New Mexico Mechanical Engineering Department Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87131, USA Kevin R. Anderson California...

... in terms of flow enhancement factor (E f ) (provides maximum species transport) and the average entropy generation due to fluid friction, viscous dissipation and Joule heating effect. The advantages and disadvantages of utilizing slip conditions are discussed which has large scale applications on drug...

... the thermal control of electronic devices. The analysis of entropy generation mechanism is very important to optimize the second-law performance of these energy conversion devices in micro-scale. The main concern of this paper is to investigate the channel geometry effect on the mixing performances in the X...

.... The concept of entropy generation, used in this work, has permitted to detect regions of high frictional effect in the vortex finder, the bottom of the conical part, and at the interface separating the outer and the core streams. The simplifying assumptions employed in the CFD models and some numerical...