Much research in small-scale natural convection is targeted towards improved passive cooling of microelectronic devices (with increasing dissipative heat flux, higher operating frequencies, and increased component density). Small-scale convection also plays a central role in some more recent miniaturization efforts such as chemical analysis systems and energy conversion devices. In general, the small length-scales associated with these systems greatly inhibit natural convection heat transfer and species transport. The focus of this study is the enhancement of natural convection based heat transfer through independent modulation of heat fluxes from a planar array of distributed sources. Unsteady heat generation is common in electronic components, and more importantly, small-scale systems can be designed to induce dynamic heat fluxes. In this work, the heat transfer resulting from distributed and modulated heat sources on the order of 100μm–1000μm in 2D enclosures filled with air are investigated numerically. The heat sources are modelled as flush-mounted sources with prescribed heat flux boundary conditions. Air adjacent to the sources is heated, and eventually, the flow structure will transition from the conduction-dominated regime to the buoyancy driven convection-dominated regime. Optimum heat transfer rates and the onset of thermal instability are governed by the size and spacing of the sources, the width-to-height aspect ratio of the enclosure and the phase shift between modulated heat sources. The thermal expansion coefficient is assumed small enough that the Boussinesq approximation is appropriate, and the continuity, momentum and energy equations are solved using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The effects of the source size and source spacing on heat transfer rates are determined. This work provides insight on the parameters required to provide enhanced heat and mass transfer in small-scale systems exhibiting distributed and modulated heat sources.
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ASME 3rd International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels
June 13–15, 2005
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Nanotechnology Institute
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0-7918-4185-5
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Enhanced Microconvection Through Distributed Heat Source Modulation
Aimy Bazylak,
Aimy Bazylak
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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Ned Djilali,
Ned Djilali
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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David Sinton
David Sinton
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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Aimy Bazylak
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Ned Djilali
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
David Sinton
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Paper No:
ICMM2005-75232, pp. 545-551; 7 pages
Published Online:
November 11, 2008
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Bazylak, A, Djilali, N, & Sinton, D. "Enhanced Microconvection Through Distributed Heat Source Modulation." Proceedings of the ASME 3rd International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels. ASME 3rd International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels, Parts A and B. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. June 13–15, 2005. pp. 545-551. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/ICMM2005-75232
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