Abstract
Design concept of microchannel heat exchangers is going to plan with new flow microchannel configuration to reduce the pressure drop and improve heat transfer performance. The study aims to find optimum microchannel design providing the best performance of flow and heat transfer characterization in a heat sink. Therefore, three different types of microchannels in which water is used, straight, wavy and zigzag have been studied. The optimization operation has been performed to find optimum geometry with ANSYS’s Response Surface Optimization Tool. Primarily, CFD analysis has been performed by parameterizing a wavy microchannel geometry. Optimum wavy microchannel design has been obtained by the response surface created for the range of velocity from 0.5 to 5, the range of amplitude from 0.06 to 0.3, the range of microchannel height from 0.1 to 0.2, the range of microchannel width from 0.1 to 0.2 and range of sinusoidal wave length from 0.25 to 2.0. All simulations have been performed in the laminar regime for Reynolds number ranging from 100 to 900. Results showed that the Reynolds number range corresponding to the industrial pressure drop limits is between 100 and 400. Nu values obtained in this range for optimum wavy geometry were found at a rate of 10% higher than those of the zigzag channel and 40% higher than those of the straight channels. In addition, when the pressure values of the straight channel did not exceed 10 kPa, the inlet pressure data calculated for zigzag and wavy channel data almost coincided with each other.
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Abbreviations
- a :
-
Amplitude [m].
- b :
-
Microchannel height [m].
- c :
-
Microchannel width [m].
- c p :
-
Specific heat [kj/kgK].
- dp/dx :
-
Pressure gradient [kg/m2 s2].
- D h :
-
Hydraulic diameter [m].
- e :
-
Internal energy [J/kg].
- f:
-
Friction factor.
- h :
-
Heat transfer coefficient [W/(m2 K].
- k :
-
Thermal conductivity [W/mK].
- L :
-
Microchannel length [m].
- Nu :
-
Nusselt number.
- p :
-
Pressure [N/m2].
- q :
-
Heat flux [W/m2].
- Re :
-
Reynolds number.
- S :
-
Wave length [m].
- t :
-
Time [s].
- T :
-
Temperature [K].
- U :
-
Velocity [m/s].
- δ :
-
Identity matrix.
- μ :
-
Dynamic viscosity [kg/(m s)].
- ρ :
-
Density [kg/m3].
- τ :
-
Stress tensor [N/m2].
- f :
-
(Fluid)
- m :
-
(Mean)
- s :
-
(Surface)
- w :
-
(Wall)
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Parlak, Z. Optimal design of wavy microchannel and comparison of heat transfer characteristics with zigzag and straight geometries. Heat Mass Transfer 54, 3317–3328 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00231-018-2375-6
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