PIN FINs
PIN FINs
Research Done:
1. Clearance to diameter ratio.
2. In-line and staggered
configurations
1. With a clearance, the area of the side of the pin is smaller than it would be if the
pin were to span the entire channel.
2. the exposure of the pin tip area to the surrounding fluid is expected to result in a
high local heat transfer coefficient
3. Also the pressure drop for pin fin channels with clearance is expected to be lower
than in the no clearance case
Results
1. Heat transfer is strongly dependent on the clearance to diameter
(C/D) ratio. Smaller values of this ratio result in a strong increase of
the overall heat transfer as the amount of fluid bypassing under the
pin fins can be reduced.
2. Staggered show improved heat transfer.
3. A friction factor correlation is suggested for a staggered pin fin
arrangement, and takes the Reynolds number as only variable input
parameter.
4. At comparable clearance to diameter ratios and a Reynolds number
of 100, the Nusselt number of a staggered pin fin arrangement is
increased by 56% over the Nusselt number of the corresponding in-
line arrangement.
Effects of pin fin shape and configuration on the single-phase heat transfer characteristics of jet
impingement on micro pin fins Sidy Ndao , Yoav Peles, Michael K. Jensen
Research Done:
1. The cross flow effect
2. The best pin fin
Results
1. Negligible effect of cross flow
2. Area enhancement played a major role on the overall heat transfer
enhancement.
3. The circular pin fins along with the square pin fins displayed the
highest heat transfer coefficients for a given jet velocity.
4. Micro pin fins with the larger diameter outperformed the micro pin
fins with the smaller diameter.
5. The larger the diameter of the pin fin is, the smaller the flow area e.
Smaller flow area means higher local velocities within the pin fin
array for a given jet velocity and, hence, that should result in higher
average heat transfer coefficients.
An investigation of convective heat transfer in microchannel with Piranha Pin
Fin X. Yu a,⇑ , C. Woodcock a , J. Plawsky b , Y. Peles c
Research Done:
1. Convective heat transfer of ppfs
2. Comparison with plan micro-channel.
RESULTS
The friction factor decreased with Reynolds
number for both cases. However, the friction
factor for plain microchannel decreased more
rapidly than that for microchannel with PPFs
with increasing Reynolds number.
2 papers
Flow and heat transfer characteristics and optimization study on the water-cooled microchannel
heat sinks with dimple and pin-fin Ping Li a , Yaoyuan Luo b , Di Zhang a , Yonghui Xie b,⇑
Research Done:
1. water-cooled microchannel heat
sink with dimple and pin-fin were
numerically studied in this work.
2. configuration optimization analysis
Results
1. The increase of D1 and decrease of S bring out the
increase of Nu/ Nu0 under all Re studied.
2. Relative small d will be beneficial for heat transfer
enhancement at lower Re conditions.
3. Flow structures induced by pin-fin make the
development of flow separation in the dimple
happened in advance
Pool boiling heat transfer enhancement with segmented finned microchannels
structured surface
Research done:
Research Done:
1. Various pin fin shapes.
Results:
1. circular fins displayed most efficient
thermal performance followed by the
hexagon and square fins.
2. . The best thermal performance of the
circular fins is the response of the delayed
flow separation along the smooth surface
of fins and the subsequent uniform flow
distribution along the whole sink
Heat transfer and pressure drop of a periodic expanded-constrained microchannels heat sink
Daxiang Deng a,b,⇑ , Liang Chen b , Xiaolong Chen b , Guang Pi b
Research Done:
1. convective heat transfer
and pressure drop
performance was explored
2. cooling efficiency was
compared with rectangular
microchannels
Results
1. PECM samples showed significant heat transfer enhancement, i.e.,
50% to 117%, compared to the rectangular counterpart in the test
ranges.
2. Such enhancement can be attributed to that the periodic expanded
constrained configurations of PECM induced periodic interruption
and redevelopment of thermal and hydraulic boundary layers, as
well as good flow separation, fluid acceleration and mixing.
3. heat transfer enhancement of PECM was not accompanied with the
expense of pressure drop penalty, and all the PECM samples reduced
the pressure drop for 10–74% compared to the rectangular
counterpart.
4. pressure drop and thermal resistance of PECM increased
monotonically with decreasing the microchannel gap widths
Study of laminar single phase frictional factor and Nusselt number in In-line micro pin-fin heat sink
for electronic cooling applications Gagan V. Kewalramani, Gaurav Hedau, Sandip K. Saha ⇑ , Amit
Agrawal
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Research Done:
investigate the heat transfer and
fluid flow
characteristics of combined
microchannel
with cone-shaped micro pin fins
Results:
The results show that the microchannel inserted cone-shaped micro pin fins
improves the heat transfer accompanied with a higher pressure drop as compared
with the smooth rectangular microchannel.
Transient Thermal Simulation of Perforated Drop-Shaped Pin Fin Array in
Staggared Arrangement Manikandan.C 1 , Pachaiyappan.S 2
Research Done:
1. Simulation of pressure and temperature
Results:
perforated Drop shaped pin fins results are compared with Circular and
Rectangular Shapes to justify the Drop shaped pin fin will give the better
heat transfer.
Influence of fin height on heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of
rectangular microchannel heat sink Yogesh K. Prajapati
Research Done:
1. Seven different cases have
been considered by varying
the fin heights from 0.4 to 1.0
mm
2. Heat transfer rate and
pressure drop
Results:
Numerical investigation on hydraulic and thermal characteristics of micro latticed pin fin in the heat
sink Xiang Wanga , Min Chena,∗ , Derrick Tatea , Hamidreza Rahimi b , Shunqi Zhangc
Research Done:
1. the combination of
conventional pin fin and
lattice structure are used to
propose a new design of micro
latticed pin fin
Results
The results reveal that overall pressure loss shows a slight improvement by using
the latticed pin fin when compared with a solid pin fin. However, only a cubic
body-centered-cubic pin fin has a positive influence on hydraulic and thermal
performance, using a vertex cube achieves the opposite results.
Numerical and experimental analysis of cooling performance of single-phase array microchannel
heat sinks with different pin-fin configurations Dawei Yang, Yan Wang ⇑ , Guifu Ding, Zhiyu Jin,
Junhong Zhao, Guilian Wang
Research Done:
The heat transfer performances of the microchannel heat sinks with five different pin-fin
configurations were investigated numerically and experimentally.
Results
1. Pin fins with triangular cross section show the
maximum blocking effects for the coolant flowing.
The heat flux conducted by pin fins can‘t transfer
efficiently to the coolant.
2. The coolant flow around the circular pin fins shows
the minimum blocking effects because of the
channels distribution with the most stable variation,
this provides continuous and stable flow
Numerical investigation on the heat transfer and flow in the mini-fin heat sink for CPU☆
Paisarn Naphon a, ⁎, Setha Klangchart a , Somchai Wongwises b
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Results:
1. The flow velocity is not uniformity.
2. Flow structure and temperature
distribution are not uniformity and
The temperature distribution of the
heat sink corresponds to the fluid
flow velocity