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- Creators: Herrmann, Marcus
- Creators: Kwon, Beomjin
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The heat transfer enhancements available from expanding the cross-section of a boiling microchannel are explored analytically and experimentally. Evaluation of the literature on critical heat flux in flow boiling and associated pressure drop behavior is presented with predictive critical heat flux (CHF) and pressure drop correlations. An optimum channel configuration allowing maximum CHF while reducing pressure drop is sought. A perturbation of the channel diameter is employed to examine CHF and pressure drop relationships from the literature with the aim of identifying those adequately general and suitable for use in a scenario with an expanding channel. Several CHF criteria are identified which predict an optimizable channel expansion, though many do not. Pressure drop relationships admit improvement with expansion, and no optimum presents itself. The relevant physical phenomena surrounding flow boiling pressure drop are considered, and a balance of dimensionless numbers is presented that may be of qualitative use. The design, fabrication, inspection, and experimental evaluation of four copper microchannel arrays of different channel expansion rates with R-134a refrigerant is presented. Optimum rates of expansion which maximize the critical heat flux are considered at multiple flow rates, and experimental results are presented demonstrating optima. The effect of expansion on the boiling number is considered, and experiments demonstrate that expansion produces a notable increase in the boiling number in the region explored, though no optima are observed. Significant decrease in the pressure drop across the evaporator is observed with the expanding channels, and no optima appear. Discussion of the significance of this finding is presented, along with possible avenues for future work.
ContributorsMiner, Mark (Author) / Phelan, Patrick E (Thesis advisor) / Baer, Steven (Committee member) / Chamberlin, Ralph (Committee member) / Chen, Kangping (Committee member) / Herrmann, Marcus (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2013
A level set approach for denoising and adaptively smoothing complex geometry stereolithography files
Description
Stereolithography files (STL) are widely used in diverse fields as a means of describing complex geometries through surface triangulations. The resulting stereolithography output is a result of either experimental measurements, or computer-aided design. Often times stereolithography outputs from experimental means are prone to noise, surface irregularities and holes in an otherwise closed surface.
A general method for denoising and adaptively smoothing these dirty stereolithography files is proposed. Unlike existing means, this approach aims to smoothen the dirty surface representation by utilizing the well established levelset method. The level of smoothing and denoising can be set depending on a per-requirement basis by means of input parameters. Once the surface representation is smoothened as desired, it can be extracted as a standard levelset scalar isosurface.
The approach presented in this thesis is also coupled to a fully unstructured Cartesian mesh generation library with built-in localized adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) capabilities, thereby ensuring lower computational cost while also providing sufficient resolution. Future work will focus on implementing tetrahedral cuts to the base hexahedral mesh structure in order to extract a fully unstructured hexahedra-dominant mesh describing the STL geometry, which can be used for fluid flow simulations.
A general method for denoising and adaptively smoothing these dirty stereolithography files is proposed. Unlike existing means, this approach aims to smoothen the dirty surface representation by utilizing the well established levelset method. The level of smoothing and denoising can be set depending on a per-requirement basis by means of input parameters. Once the surface representation is smoothened as desired, it can be extracted as a standard levelset scalar isosurface.
The approach presented in this thesis is also coupled to a fully unstructured Cartesian mesh generation library with built-in localized adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) capabilities, thereby ensuring lower computational cost while also providing sufficient resolution. Future work will focus on implementing tetrahedral cuts to the base hexahedral mesh structure in order to extract a fully unstructured hexahedra-dominant mesh describing the STL geometry, which can be used for fluid flow simulations.
ContributorsKannan, Karthik (Author) / Herrmann, Marcus (Thesis advisor) / Peet, Yulia (Committee member) / Frakes, David (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2014
Description
Microchannel heat sinks can possess heat transfer characteristics unavailable in conventional heat exchangers; such sinks offer compact solutions to otherwise intractable thermal management problems, notably in small-scale electronics cooling. Flow boiling in microchannels allows a very high heat transfer rate, but is bounded by the critical heat flux (CHF). This thesis presents a theoretical-numerical study of a method to improve the heat rejection capability of a microchannel heat sink via expansion of the channel cross-section along the flow direction. The thermodynamic quality of the refrigerant increases during flow boiling, decreasing the density of the bulk coolant as it flows. This may effect pressure fluctuations in the channels, leading to nonuniform heat transfer and local dryout in regions exceeding CHF. This undesirable phenomenon is counteracted by permitting the cross-section of the microchannel to increase along the direction of flow, allowing more volume for the vapor. Governing equations are derived from a control-volume analysis of a single heated rectangular microchannel; the cross-section is allowed to expand in width and height. The resulting differential equations are solved numerically for a variety of channel expansion profiles and numbers of channels. The refrigerant is R-134a and channel parameters are based on a physical test bed in a related experiment. Significant improvement in CHF is possible with moderate area expansion. Minimal additional manufacturing costs could yield major gains in the utility of microchannel heat sinks. An optimum expansion rate occurred in certain cases, and alterations in the channel width are, in general, more effective at improving CHF than alterations in the channel height. Modest expansion in height enables small width expansions to be very effective.
ContributorsMiner, Mark (Author) / Phelan, Patrick E (Thesis advisor) / Herrmann, Marcus (Committee member) / Chen, Kangping (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2011
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In this paper, the effectiveness and practical applications of cooling a computer's CPU using mineral oil is investigated. A computer processor or CPU may be immersed along with other electronics in mineral oil and still be operational. The mineral oil acts as a dielectric and prevents shorts in the electronics while also being thermally conductive and cooling the CPU. A simple comparison of a flat plate immersed in air versus mineral oil is considered using analytical natural convection correlations. The result of this comparison indicates that the plate cooled by natural convection in air would operate at 98.41[°C] while the plate cooled by mineral oil would operate at 32.20 [°C]. Next, CFD in ANSYS Fluent was used to conduct simulation with forced convection representing a CPU fan driving fluid flow to cool the CPU. A comparison is made between cooling done with air and mineral oil. The results of the CFD simulation results indicate that using mineral oil as a substitute to air as the cooling fluid reduced the CPU operating temperature by sixty degrees Celsius. The use of mineral oil as a cooling fluid for a consumer computer has valid thermal benefits, but the practical challenges of the method will likely prevent widespread adoption.
ContributorsTichacek, Louis Joseph (Author) / Huang, Huei-Ping (Thesis director) / Herrmann, Marcus (Committee member) / Middleton, James (Committee member) / Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Program (Contributor, Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2016-12
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This paper explores to mitigate the issue of Formula SAE brakes vaporizing by creating a computational model to determine when the fluid may boil given a velocity profile and brake geometry. The paper explores various parameters and assumptions and how they may lead to error determining when the brake fluid will vaporize. Common assumptions such as a constant convection coefficient are questioned throughout the paper and compared to methods requiring higher computational power. Throughout this model, a significant dependence on the heat partition factor is found on the final steady state temperature of the brake fluid is found, and a sensitivity analysis is performed to determine the effect of its variation.
ContributorsWesterhoff, Andrew (Author) / Kwon, Beomjin (Thesis director) / Milcarek, Ryan (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Program (Contributor)
Created2023-05
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Additive manufacturing, also known as 3-dimensional (3-d) printing, is now a rapidly growing manufacturing technique. Innovative and complex designs in various aspects of engineering have called for more efficient manufacturing techniques and 3-d printing has been a perfect choice in that direction. This research investigates the use of additive manufacturing in fabricating polymer heat exchangers and estimate their effectiveness as a heat transfer device. Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) and Stereolithography (SLA) are the three 3-d printing techniques that are explored for their feasibility in manufacturing heat exchangers. The research also explores a triply periodic minimal structure–the gyroid, as a heat exchanger design. The performance of the gyroid heat exchanger was studied using experiments. The main parameters considered for the experiments were heat transfer rate, effectiveness and pressure drop. From the results obtained it can be inferred that using polymers in heat exchangers helps reducing corrosion and fouling problems, but it affects the effectiveness of the heat exchangers. For our design, the maximum effectiveness achieved was 0.1. The pressure drop for the heat exchanger was observed to decrease with an increase in flow rate and the maximum pressure drop measured was 0.88 psi for a flow rate of 5 LPM.
ContributorsDanayat, Swapneel Shailesh (Author) / Phelan, Patrick (Thesis advisor) / Kwon, Beomjin (Committee member) / Azeredo, Bruno (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2019
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Near-field thermal radiation occurs when the distance between two surfaces at different temperatures is less than the characteristic wavelength of thermal radiation. While theoretical studies predict that the near-field radiative heat transfer could exceed Planck’s blackbody limit in the far-field by orders of magnitudes depending on the materials and gap distance, experimental measurement of super-Planckian near-field radiative heat flux is extremely challenging in particular at sub-100-nm vacuum gaps and few has been demonstrated. The objective of this thesis is to develop a novel thermal metrology based on AFM bi-material cantilever and experimentally measure near-field thermal radiation.
The experiment setup is completed and validated by measuring the near-field radiative heat transfer between a silica microsphere and a silica substrate and comparing with theoretical calculations. The bi-material AFM cantilever made of SiNi and Au bends with temperature changes, whose deflection is monitored by the position-sensitive diode. After careful calibration, the bi-material cantilever works as a thermal sensor, from which the near-field radiative conductance and tip temperature can be deduced when the silica substrate approaches the silica sphere attached to the cantilever by a piezo stage with a resolution of 1 nm from a few micrometers away till physical contact. The developed novel near-field thermal metrology will be used to measure the near-field radiative heat transfer between the silica microsphere and planar SiC surface as well as nanostructured SiC metasurface. This research aims to enhance the fundamental understandings of radiative heat transfer in the near-field which could lead to advances in microelectronics, optical data storage and thermal systems for energy conversion and thermal management.
The experiment setup is completed and validated by measuring the near-field radiative heat transfer between a silica microsphere and a silica substrate and comparing with theoretical calculations. The bi-material AFM cantilever made of SiNi and Au bends with temperature changes, whose deflection is monitored by the position-sensitive diode. After careful calibration, the bi-material cantilever works as a thermal sensor, from which the near-field radiative conductance and tip temperature can be deduced when the silica substrate approaches the silica sphere attached to the cantilever by a piezo stage with a resolution of 1 nm from a few micrometers away till physical contact. The developed novel near-field thermal metrology will be used to measure the near-field radiative heat transfer between the silica microsphere and planar SiC surface as well as nanostructured SiC metasurface. This research aims to enhance the fundamental understandings of radiative heat transfer in the near-field which could lead to advances in microelectronics, optical data storage and thermal systems for energy conversion and thermal management.
ContributorsKondakindi, Ramteja Reddy (Author) / Wang, Liping (Thesis advisor) / Kwon, Beomjin (Committee member) / Wang, Qing Hua (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2019
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Traditionally, for applications that require heat transfer (e.g. heat exchangers),metals have been the go-to material for manufacturers because of their high thermal as
well as structural properties. However, metals have some notable drawbacks. They are
not corrosion-resistant, offer no freedom of design, have a high cost of production, and
sourcing the material itself. Even though polymers on their own don’t show great
prospects in the field of thermal applications, their composites perform better than their
counterparts. Nanofillers, when added to a polymer matrix not only increase their
structural strength but also their thermal performance. This work aims to tackle two of
those problems by using the additive manufacturing method, stereolithography to solve
the problem of design freedom, and the use of polymer nanocomposite material for
corrosion-resistance and increase their overall thermal performance. In this work, three
different concentrations of polymer composite materials were studied: 0.25 wt%, 0.5
wt%, and 1wt% for their thermal conductivity. The samples were prepared by
magnetically stirring them for a period of 10 to 24 hours depending on their
concentrations and then sonicating in an ice bath further for a period of 2 to 3 hours.
These samples were then tested for their thermal conductivities using a Hot Disk TPS
2500S. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) to study the dispersion of the nanoparticles
in the matrix. Different theoretical models were studied and used to compare
experimental data to the predicted values of effective thermal conductivity. An increase
of 7.9 % in thermal conductivity of the composite material was recorded for just 1 wt%
addition of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs).
well as structural properties. However, metals have some notable drawbacks. They are
not corrosion-resistant, offer no freedom of design, have a high cost of production, and
sourcing the material itself. Even though polymers on their own don’t show great
prospects in the field of thermal applications, their composites perform better than their
counterparts. Nanofillers, when added to a polymer matrix not only increase their
structural strength but also their thermal performance. This work aims to tackle two of
those problems by using the additive manufacturing method, stereolithography to solve
the problem of design freedom, and the use of polymer nanocomposite material for
corrosion-resistance and increase their overall thermal performance. In this work, three
different concentrations of polymer composite materials were studied: 0.25 wt%, 0.5
wt%, and 1wt% for their thermal conductivity. The samples were prepared by
magnetically stirring them for a period of 10 to 24 hours depending on their
concentrations and then sonicating in an ice bath further for a period of 2 to 3 hours.
These samples were then tested for their thermal conductivities using a Hot Disk TPS
2500S. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) to study the dispersion of the nanoparticles
in the matrix. Different theoretical models were studied and used to compare
experimental data to the predicted values of effective thermal conductivity. An increase
of 7.9 % in thermal conductivity of the composite material was recorded for just 1 wt%
addition of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs).
ContributorsGide, Kunal Manoj (Author) / Nian, Qiong (Thesis advisor) / Kwon, Beomjin (Committee member) / Li, Xiangjia (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2020