Affiliation:
1. National Tsing Hua University
Abstract
An experimental investigation on the thermal performance of slot jet impinging onto fully-confined and partially-confined heat sinks with plain-plate fins (ppf) is presented. The relevant parameters influencing the convective cooling performance with slot jet impingement include the ratio of heat sink height to jet separation distance (Hs/H), ratio of heat sink height to nozzle width (Hs/Wj) and jet Reynolds number (Rej). The thermal performance of fully-confined ppf heat sinks (Hs/H=1) is experimentally investigated. Besides, an effective theoretical model based on a developing channel flow with an impinging effect is successfully proposed to predict the average Nusselt numbers of fully-confined ppf heat sinks. Furthermore, a new correlation of average Nusselt numbers in terms of Hs/Wj and Rej is proposed for the cases of fully-confined ppf heat sinks. For partially-confined cases, a normalized Nusselt number, [Equation]Nuj/[Equation]Nuj,Hs/H=1, is showed only dependent on Hs/H in the present study. A new correlation of [Equation]Nuj/[Equation]Nuj,Hs/H=1 in terms of Hs/H is proposed. This result manifests that the Nusselt numbers of partially-confined ppf heat sinks can properly be evaluated with the Nusselt numbers of fully-confined heat sinks and the normalized [Equation]Nuj/[Equation]Nuj,Hs/H=1 ratios. Finally, a generalized correlation of average Nusselt numbers in terms of Hs/H, Hs/Wj and Rej, which can be applied to both fully-confined and partially-confined heat sinks, is proposed. The maximum and average deviations between the correlations and the experimental data are 19.7% as well as 4.6%, respectively.