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Numerical Study of Laminar Forced Convection of Nanofluid in a New Microchannel Heat Sink Cover

Numerical Study of Laminar Forced Convection of Nanofluid in a New Microchannel Heat Sink

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|Dec 2021

Abstract

The heat transfer and pressure drop in a microchannel heat sink with 02 mixing chambers with inclined walls were numerically studied. The transport equations have been resolved by the finite volume method using ANSYS Fluent software. The operating fluids are water and Al2O3-water. The results obtained for Reynolds numbers ranging from 187 and 705 show that adding a micro-mixing chamber with a rectangular rib in the microchannel improves the heat transfer and increases the pressure drop compared to conventional microchannels. The new shape of the mixing chamber studied shows a net decrease in pressure drop, which improves the performance of the micro heat sink by 5.6%.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/scjme-2021-0015 | Journal eISSN: 2450-5471 | Journal ISSN: 0039-2472
Language: English
Page range: 31 - 40
Published on: Dec 7, 2021
Published by: Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2021 Bouhabel Bourhane, Kabar Yassine, published by Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
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