Forced convective heat transfer of water/functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotube nanofluids in a microchannel with oscillating heat flux and slip boundary …

Z Nikkhah, A Karimipour, MR Safaei… - … Communications in Heat …, 2015 - Elsevier
In the present work, forced convective heat transfer of water/functionalized multi-walled
carbon nanotube (FMWCNT) nanofluid in a two-dimensional microchannel is investigated …

Constructal cooling channels for micro-channel heat sinks

T Bello-Ochende, L Liebenberg, JP Meyer - International Journal of Heat …, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper documents the geometric optimisation of a three-dimensional micro-channel heat
sink. The objective is to minimise the peak temperature from the walls to the coolant fluid …

Topology optimization for an internal heat-conduction cooling scheme in a square domain for high heat flux applications

J Dirker, JP Meyer - Journal of Heat Transfer, 2013 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Conductive heat transfer is of importance in the cooling of electronic equipment. However, in
order for conductive cooling to become effective, the use of high-conducting materials and …

Constructal optimization of the geometry of an array of micro-channels

MR Salimpour, M Sharifhasan, E Shirani - International Communications in …, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper documents the geometric optimization of an array of circular and non-circular
ducts. The optimization was carried out numerically using finite volume method. As optimal …

A reconfigurable structure DC–DC converter with wide output range and constant peak power

P Sun, L Zhou, KM Smedley - IEEE transactions on power …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a reconfigurable structure dc-dc converter with wide output range and
constant peak power (RS-WOCP). This converter is an extension of the traditional isolated …

Microchannel heat transfer and dispersion of nanoparticles in slip flow regime with constant heat flux

H Afshar, M Shams, SMM Nainian, G Ahmadi - … Communications in Heat …, 2009 - Elsevier
If the hydrodynamic diameter of a channel is comparable with the mean free path of the gas
molecules moving inside the channel, the fluid can no longer be considered to be in …

Three-dimensional multi-scale plate assembly for maximum heat transfer rate density

T Bello-Ochende, JP Meyer, J Dirker - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper extends the design concept for generating multi-scale structures in forced
convection for a finite-size flow system to a three-dimensional heat-generating plate with the …

Leaflike architecture for cooling a flat body

L Combelles, S Lorente, A Bejan - Journal of Applied Physics, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
The generation of heat in high-density electronics is concentrated in spots, not uniform. Here
we account for this fundamental aspect as a phenomenon of heat conduction in a flat body …

Optimization design of power factor correction converter based on genetic algorithm

HP Ren, T Zheng - 2010 Fourth International Conference on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A small-signal model is used to design the controller parameters of the conventional Power
Factor Correction (PFC) converter. The dynamics of the converter is nonlinear, therefore, it is …

Thermal management of compact nanocrystalline inductors for power dense converters

Y Wang, G Calderon-Lopez… - 2018 IEEE Applied …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Enhanced thermal management continues to be the key to the miniaturisation of high-
frequency magnetic components and to increased converter power densities. Thermal finite …