Combined finned microgap with dedicated extreme-microgap hotspot flow for high performance thermal management

Abbaspour, Reza; Woodrum, David C.; Kottke, Peter A.; Sarvey, Thomas E.; Green, Craig E.; Joshi, Yogendra; Fedorov, Andrei G.; Sitaraman, Suresh K.; Bakir, Muhannad S.

doi:10.1109/itherm.2016.7517711

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“…21 Similarly, other works have also been done to remove the uneven heat flux generation by varying the fin density in the microchannel heat sinks. [24][25][26][27] Abbaspour et al 28 have successfully fabricated a microfluidic heat sink specifically designed to address the heat removal of both the background and hotspots. They applied an extreme micro gap for hotspots cooling and micro pin fins for the background cooling.…”

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Automatically adaptive cooling of hotspots by a fractal microchannel heat sink embedded with thermo‐responsive hydrogels

Yan

et al. 2021

Intl J of Energy Research

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A smart fractal microchannel heat sink (SFMHS) integrated with thermoresponsive hydrogels is developed for the randomly distributed hotspots sensing and adaptive cooling of microelectronic devices. The equally distributed thermo-responsive hydrogels can firstly sense the temperature rise caused by random hotspots and then work as microfluidic valves to reallocate the coolant by its adaptive thermo-shrinkage. The CFD numerical results show that the proposed SFMHS presents lower and more uniform temperature distribution than FMHS under hotspots conditions. The maximum temperature rise, heat source temperature difference, and heat source temperature SD of SFMHS are 4.47, 4.28, and 0.97 K lower than FMHS at the HSB heat flux of 400 W/cm 2 , respectively. The adaptive cooling superiority of SFMHS gets enhanced with the increase of the hotspots area and heat flux density because more hydrogels shrink, and more flow gets reallocated for hotspot-targeted cooling. However, too low (HSA,400 W/cm 2 ) or too high (HSC, 300 W/cm 2 ) hotspots conditions would result in the worse hotspot cooling of SFMHS with no adaptive flow reallocation because all hydrogels are at the same initial or shrunken sates. Meanwhile, SFMHS is more effective to sense and cooling the hotspots that are closer to hydrogels.

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