... was used in this study. heat transfer pin fins tip clearance low Reynolds number thermal performance minichannels Advances in electronics and power generation technologies have lead to requirements for increasing heat and mass transfer. In many cases the ability to reject heat...

...Ting-Yu Lin; Satish G. Kandlikar The effect of structured roughness on the heat transfer of water flowing through minichannels was experimentally investigated in this study. The test channels were formed by two 12.7 mm wide × 94.6 mm long stainless steel strips. Eight structured roughness elements...

...Frank Dammel; Peter Stephan The heat transfer to water-based suspensions of microencapsulated phase change material (MEPCM) flowing laminarly through rectangular copper minichannels was investigated both experimentally and numerically. The MEPCM-particles had an average size of 5 μm and contained...

...Satish G. Kandlikar Accurate prediction of critical heat flux (CHF) in microchannels and minichannels is of great interest in estimating the safe operational limits of cooling systems employing flow boiling. Scale analysis is applied to identify the relevant forces leading to the CHF condition...

... number thermal performance entropy generation minimization (EGM) minichannels Heat transfer from or to a surface can be augmented by the use of extended surfaces or fins primarily by increasing the heat transfer area and/or increasing heat transfer coefficient. Cylindrical or pin fins...

...Ali Rozati; Danesh K. Tafti; Neal E. Blackwell Cylindrical pin fins with tip clearances are investigated in the low Reynolds number range 5 < Re D < 400 in a plane minichannel. Five tip gaps are investigated ranging from a full pin fin ( t * = 0.0 ) to a clearance of t * = 0.4 D * , where D...