The design optimization of a 7× 7 pin-fin heat sink is performed numerically. To achieve
higher thermal performance of the heat sink, the thermal resistance at the junction of the chip …

An effective method for performing the thermal optimization of fully confined pin-fin heat
sinks under constraints of pressure drop, mass, and space limitations has been successfully …

In this study, an entropy generation minimization procedure is employed to optimize the
overall performance (thermal and hydrodynamic) of isolated fin geometries and pin-fin heat …

Finned surfaces have been in use for a long period as a heat dissipation mechanism. The
optimization of fins is of major importance in the thermal design of a heat exchanger. The …

This paper presents the use of a multiobjective evolutionary algorithm, namely population-
based incremental learning (PBIL), for the design/optimization of a splayed pin-fin heat sink …

This paper presents the multi-objective optimization of water-cooled pinfin heatsinks. The
heat transfer rate and pressure drop were the objective functions, and four parameters …

A pin fin array design problem is studied in the present work using the Levenberg-Marquardt
method (LMM) and a commercial package CFD-ACE+ to estimate the optimal shape and …

The optimal shape of a Plate-Pin-Fin Heat Sink with Perforations and Splitters (PPFHS-PS)
is designed in this work using the software package CFD-ACE+ and the Levenberg …

In an effort to reduce the highest temperature of electronic pieces, using high performance
cooling systems is required, and for this reason, optimization is one of the most essential …

The present study carries out numerical computations of the plate-circular pin-fin heat sink
and provides physical insight into the flow and heat transfer characteristics. The governing …