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Fluid flow and heat transfer in vascularized cooling plates.

Author(s) : CHO K. H., LEE J., AHN H. S., et al.

Type of article: Article

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In this study, the hydrodynamic and thermal characteristics of new vascular designs for the volumetric bathing of the smart structures were investigated numerically by addressing three-dimensional continuity, momentum, and energy conservation as a conjugate heat flow phenomenon. The numerical results show that the optimized structure of cooling plates could enhance heat transfer significantly and decrease pumping power dramatically compared with the traditional channels. The difference in thermal resistance performance between optimized and non-optimized structures was found to increase and manifests itself clearly as the system size increased. The channel configurations of the first and second constructs are competitive in non-optimized configurations, whereas the best architecture was the third construct across all working conditions in non-optimized configurations. [Reprinted with permission from Elsevier. Copyright, 2010].

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