A numerical model for heat sinks with phase change materials and thermal conductivity enhancers

By K. C. Nayak, S. Saha, K. Srinivasan, P. Dutta. 2006

235 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Phase change materials for smart textiles – An overview (2008, background): “It is also found that rod-type fins perform better than plate-type ones, as they are able to maintain better uniformity of temperature within the PCM leading to less chip temperature [40].”
• Transient Simulation of Finned Heat Sinks Embedded with PCM for Electronics Cooling (2020, background): “[7] for TM of electronics using porous matrix and finned (plate-type and rod-type) as a TCEs for PCM filled heat sinks.”
• Optimization of finned solar photovoltaic phase change material (finned pv pcm) system (2018, background): “[35] have investigated the performance of phase change material using porous matrix, plate-type fins and rod-type fins.”
• A review on phase-change materials: Mathematical modeling and simulations (2011, methodology): “Běhunek and Fiala [177] also modeled a heat sink for electronic package including PCM based on the work of Nayak et al. [178] .”
• Energy storage and solidification of paraffin phase change material embedded with graphite nanofibers (2011, result): “[13] shows good agreement with experimental results from [12], specifically that there exists a low optimal volume fraction of pin–fins to PCM ( 5%) with respect to operating temperature of an electronic module fixed at the bottom of a thermal containment unit (TCU).”
• Temperature-dependent thermal properties of a paraffin phase change material embedded with herringbone style graphite nanofibers (2015, unknown): “In many early works, PCMs were simply embedded into heat sinks in order to increase the penetration of heat into the material [13–15].”
• Heat transfer enhancement for thermal energy storage using metal foams embedded within phase change materials (PCMs) (2010, background): “Some investigators studied the graphite matrix embedded within paraffin, and significant improvement in thermal conductivity was achieved (Mettawee and Assassa 2007, Nayak et al. 2006, Py et al. 2001, Nakaso et al. 2008).”