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JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME
Volume 137, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
ASME
DOI: 10.1115/1.4029847
Keywords
thermal performance; electronic cooling; high conductivity; optimum design; constructal
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- Italian MIUR
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This paper presents the evolution of architecture of high conductivity pathways embedded into a heat generating body on the basis of Constructal theory. The main objective is to introduce new geometries for the highly conductive pathways, precisely configurations shaped as V. Four types of V-shaped inserts, evolving from V1 to V4, have been comparatively considered. Geometric optimization of design is conducted to minimize the peak temperature of the heat generating piece. Many ideas emerged from this work: first of all, the numerical results demonstrated that the V-shaped pathways remarkably surpass the performance of some basic configurations already mentioned in literature, i.e., I and X-shaped pathways. Furthermore, the evolution of configurations from V1 to V4 resulted in a gradual reduction of the hot spot temperature, according to the principle of optimal distribution of imperfections that characterizes the constructal law.
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