| Title |
Cooling Performance of a Microchannel Heat Sink with Nanofluids |
| Keywords |
Nanofluids ; 나노유체 ; Microchannel heat sink ; 마이크로채널 히트 싱크 ; Thermal resistance ; 열저항 |
| Abstract |
In this paper, the cooling performance of a microchannel heat sink with nanoparticle-fluid suspensions("nanofluids") is numerically investigated. By using theoretical models of thermal conductivity and viscosity of nanofluids that account for the fundamental role of Brownian motion respectively, we investigate the temperature contours and thermal resistance of a microchannel heat sink with nanofluids such as 6nm copper-in-water and 2nm diamond-in-water. The results show that a microchannel heat sink with nanofluids has high cooling performance compared with the cooling performance of that with water, the classical coolant. Nanofluids reduce both the thermal resistance and the temperature difference between the heated microchannel wall and the coolant. |