Assessment of cooling performance of mini/micro-channel stacked double layer heat sink

Abstract

A study is accomplished here to investigate the performance of a novel double-layer mini/micro-channel stacked heat sink (DL-MMCHSHS). The hydraulic diameter and aspect ratio of mini-channel heat sink are 0.12 cm and 3, respectively. The width of the fins between two channels is 0.04 cm. The total width of two runners is the same, and its width is 1.44 cm. The heat dissipation potential of this new type of heat sink is investigated. It was observed that the pressure loss is reduced by using the DL-MMCHSHS instead of a single-layer micro-channel heat sink (SL-MCHHS). The reduction in the pressure loss reduces the pumping power, which leads to decrease in operating costs of the system. For the total flow rate of 345.69 cm3/min, the pressure loss reduces about 35.41% by using the DL-MMCHSHS instead of a SL-MCHHS. The uniformity index in the range of 0.077 to 0.192 is achieved in this study. For the total flow rate of 346.64 cm3/min, the uniformity index enhances about 60% with boosting the flow rate ratio from 0.5 to 3.5. For the total flow rate of 1039.26 cm3/min, the thermal resistance increases about 76.22% as the flow rate ratio increases from 0.5 to 3.5.

Keywords

• Double-layer heat sink
• Cooling performance
• Heat dissipation potential
• Uniformity index
• Thermal resistance
• Energy efficiency