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HEAT TRANSFER ENGINEERING
卷 43, 期 3-5, 页码 371-387出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/01457632.2021.1874670
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51976238, 51776057]
- NSAF [U1830118]
- Open Foundation Program of Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Low and Medium Grade Energy (Tianjin University) [201806-404]
The study focuses on investigating the enhancement of heat transfer using SSAW in a microchannel heat sink. Numerical simulations show that introducing SSAW can greatly improve heat transfer efficiency, with shorter SSAW wavelength and narrower microchannel being more beneficial. Maintaining constant microchannel width and SSAW wavelength, a wide microchannel cross section is recommended for higher heat transfer efficiency.
There has been a remarkably increasing interest in applying acoustofluidics in micro-electro-mechanical systems and lab-on-a-chip systems in the past decades. This paper investigated the heat transfer performance in a straight microchannel heat sink which applies standing surface acoustic waves (SSAW) to disturb the flow. Two-dimensional numerical simulations of the SSAW-driven flow are performed by employing perturbation theory on basis of COMSOL platform. The elasticity of microchannel material is taken into account by applying the impedance boundary conditions. Parametric effects on heat transfer performance including the SSAW wavelength and the dimensions of microchannel heat sink are investigated. It is found that the introduction of SSAW can greatly enhance the overall heat transfer. Moreover, with a constant channel height, shorter SSAW wavelength and narrower microchannel are found to be more beneficial to the overall thermal performance. Keeping both the microchannel width and the SSAW wavelength unchanged, a wide configuration of the microchannel cross section is recommended to achieve higher heat transfer efficiency. Finally, we elucidate the underlying mechanisms of heat transfer enhancement peculiar to the excitation of SSAW in microchannel, which is attributed to the appearance of acoustic vortices and the disruption of thermal boundary layer induced by acoustic streaming.
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