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Boundary Conditions and Integrated Sensors in Microchannel Convective Heat Transfer
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Abstract
A microchannel heat sink, integrated with pressure and temperature microsensors, is fabricated to study convective boiling under uniform heat flux boundary condition. Utilizing a wafer bond and etch back technology, the heat source, temperature and pressure sensors are separated from the fluid flow by a membrane only 1.5mm in thickness; thus, allowing good control of the thermal boundary conditions. Temperature and pressure distributions for various power levels and flow rates are measured while, simultaneously, the flow patterns are recorded. Single-phase flow results, compared with numerical simulations, confirm that the heat flux boundary condition is indeed nearly uniform. The sensor arrays, particularly for twophase flow, provide the spatial and temporal dependence of both the temperature and pressures fields.
Keywords
Integrated Sensors, microchannel, convective boiling, two-phase flow
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Proceedings of ASME ICNMM2006 - 4th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, June 19-21, 2006, Limerick, Ireland
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