Phase change material based heat sinks and its geometry optimization for heat transfer enhancement

Author

Jinyan Hu ; Run Hu ; Xiaobing Luo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Energy & Power Eng., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China

fYear

2014

fDate

27-30 May 2014

Firstpage

876

Lastpage

881

Abstract

In this paper, a phase change material (PCM) based heat sink was proposed and its geometry was optimized for heat transfer enhancement. The thermal resistance network between the heat source and the control volume was applied to analyze the influence on heat storage performance of the phase change material based heat sink (PCMBHS) and the optimization suggestions were proposed. Besides, the heat storage performance of the optimized fined PCMBHS was examined experimentally. The results showed that the temperature difference of the PCM inside each control volume reduced by 67% and the heat storage rate increased by 14% compared to those of the uniformly fined PCMBHS during the latent heat storage period.

Keywords

heat sinks; heat transfer; latent heat; optimisation; phase change materials; thermal energy storage; thermal management (packaging); thermal resistance; PCMBHS; control volume; geometry optimization; heat source; heat storage performance; heat storage rate; heat transfer enhancement; latent heat storage; phase change material based heat sink; thermal resistance network; Heat sinks; Immune system; Phase change materials; Resistance heating; Thermal resistance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), 2014 IEEE Intersociety Conference on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1087-9870

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITHERM.2014.6892373

Filename

6892373