Correlation for single phase liquid jet impingement with an angled confining wall for power electronics cooling

John F. Maddox, Roy W. Knight, Sushil H. Bhavnani, James Pool

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Abstract

An apparatus was developed to measure the local surface temperature, local heat flux, and local heat transfer coefficient for a 3 × 3 array of circular, normal, single-phase liquid water jets impinging on a copper surface. The local thermal measurements were used to obtain the average Nusselt number for the central jet. An angled confining wall was used to manage the spent fluid by maintaining a consistent crossflow momentum ratio with downstream position, which prevents degradation in the thermal performance of downstream jets. A correlation describing the average Nusselt number as a function of jet Reynolds number, Prandtl number, confining wall angle, nozzle to plate spacing, and nozzle pitch for single phase circular water jets is presented.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 15th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2016
Pages906-912
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781467381215
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 20 2016
Event15th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2016 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: May 31 2016Jun 3 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 15th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2016

Conference

Conference15th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period5/31/166/3/16

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Mechanics of Materials

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