2ETAP Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tlemcen University, Tlemcen, Algeria
Abstract
This paper aims to study numerically the laminar convective heat transfer of ionized water flow inside rectangular heat sinks with periodic expansion-constriction cross-section; each heat sink consists of parallel microchannels system with 4 mm wide and 0.1 mm deep in constant cross-section segment. Two-dimensional laminar numerical simulations, based on Navier-Stoks equations and energy equation, are obtained under the same boundary conditions for different microchannels. In this study, the heat transfer and pressure drop inside microchannels with cross-section (cylindrical grooves and triangular cavities) are compared with that of simple smooth microchannel at Reynolds number ranging from 150-1500; an increase in pressure drop of 44% for all microchannels is observed with Reynolds number increasing. The obtained results indicate an enhancement in Nusselt number for all microchannels at all Reynolds number values with a maximum enhancement of 36%, these ameliorated thermal parameters attribute to enhance the heat transfer efficiency of proposed microchannels. Which improve the effect of periodic expansion-constriction cross-section on the heat transfer performance for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) cooling phenomena.