Heat Transfer Analysis of Plate Fin Heat Sink with Dimples and Protrusions: Investigation of New Designs

Abstract

Numerous works have been carried out in the design and analysis of Heat Sink, however hardly any work have been reported with studies on dimples and protrusions being added to the heat sink geometries. This paper aims to find the worthiness for addition of dimples and protrusions to the common plate fin heat sink geometries for heat transfer enhancement. Analysis was carried out in forced convention environment for 9 different velocities computationally for 12 heat sink geometries at constant heat flux boundary condition applied to base of heat sink. Decrease in base temperature and thermal resistance of heat sink was considered as the performance factors. Further these computational results were validated experimentally. The results obtained from computational analysis were in good agreement with experimental results. The research outcome show that addition of dimples has proved its worthiness at slightly higher velocity regime with thermal performance being increased for a dimpled heat sink as compared to non-dimpled heat sink. Therefore, currently developed dimpled heat sinks can be a potential model that can be used in forced convection environment for better thermal performance and economy.