Microchannel heat sinks with nanofluids for cooling electronic components: Performance enhancement, challenges, and limitations

HM Maghrabie, AG Olabi, ET Sayed… - Thermal Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nowadays, the cooling of electronic components that are widely spread globally is
considered a critical issue. Designers and engineers alike confront major obstacles in …

Research progress on structural optimization design of microchannel heat sinks applied to electronic devices

X Zhang, Z Ji, J Wang, X Lv - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
As the miniaturization of electronic devices continues and the heat flux increases rapidly,
thermal management techniques are facing serious challenges. Microchannel heat sinks …

Thermal performance of open microchannel heat sink with variable pin fin height

P Bhandari, YK Prajapati - International journal of thermal sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Numerical study has been carried out to examine the heat transfer and fluid flow
characteristics of open microchannel heat sinks consist of square pin fins. Variation of fin …

[HTML][HTML] A critical review of the straight and wavy microchannel heat sink and the application in lithium-ion battery thermal management

M Hajialibabaei, MZ Saghir - International Journal of Thermofluids, 2022 - Elsevier
As demand for high-performance heat transfer increases, interest in microchannel heat sinks
as a viable solution for heat flux removal in thermal devices has grown significantly …

Heat transfer enhancement in microchannel heat sink by wavy channel with changing wavelength/amplitude

L Lin, J Zhao, G Lu, XD Wang, WM Yan - International Journal of Thermal …, 2017 - Elsevier
An improved design of wavy microchannel heat sink with changing wavelength or/and
amplitude along the flow direction is proposed. The thermal resistance R and the maximum …

Heat transfer and fluid flow analysis of microchannel heat sinks with periodic vertical porous ribs

MS Lori, K Vafai - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, a detailed numerical analysis of the fluid flow and heat transfer of a three-
dimensional microchannel is performed to evaluate the effect of using periodic vertical …

Effect of a micro heat sink geometric design on thermo-hydraulic performance: A review

Y Alihosseini, MZ Targhi, MM Heyhat… - Applied Thermal …, 2020 - Elsevier
With progress in technology and miniaturization of electronic devices, liquid coolants were
used increasingly in personal computers, laptops, servers, and supercomputers. Micro heat …

Heat transfer augmentation in a microchannel heat sink with sinusoidal cavities and rectangular ribs

IA Ghani, N Kamaruzaman, NAC Sidik - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2017 - Elsevier
A three-dimensional numerical simulation was conducted to study the characteristics of fluid
flow and heat transfer in new design of microchannel heat sink with sinusoidal cavities and …

An overview of passive techniques for heat transfer augmentation in microchannel heat sink

NAC Sidik, MNAW Muhamad, WMAA Japar… - … Communications in Heat …, 2017 - Elsevier
Active and passive cooling are the two possible methods for removing heat. An active
cooling system is the one that involves the use of energy as opposed to passive cooling that …

Numerical investigation of turbulent flow and heat transfer of nanofluid inside a wavy microchannel with different wavelengths

H Bazdar, D Toghraie, F Pourfattah, OA Akbari… - Journal of Thermal …, 2020 - Springer
In the present study, turbulent flow and heat transfer inside a three-dimensional wavy
microchannel with different wavelengths have been numerically simulated. The main …