Experimental Investigation of Single-Phase Micro Jets Impingement Cooling for Electronic Applications

Impinging jets for cooling of electronic equipment have been used by many researchers. Only few studies using arrays composed of a small number of jets are available in the literature. When very small jet diameters are used, the jet Reynolds number becomes quite small and no data are available for Reynolds number values below 500. In this work attention has been focused on circular arrays of free surface micro jets. Experiments were conducted by employing three jet pitches, 1, 2 and 3 mm and four jet diameters 50, 100, 150 and 250 μm and two different fluids, DI water and FC 40. The jet Reynolds number range was varied between 90 and 2000 while the Prandtl number varied from 6 to 84. Heat fluxes as high as 250 W/cm² could be removed when water was utilized. Experimental data have been correlated within ±20%.