...) are frequently used for cooling electronic devices. Optimum thermal designs of PFHSs are explored in this study using a teaching-learning-based-optimization (TLBO) algorithm where entropy generation ( S ˙ gen ) minimization, profit factor ( J ) maximization, base plate temperature excess ( θ b ) minimization...

... design. Also, many important systems have not been optimized for best performance or output. This paper focuses on the practical aspects of obtaining an optimum in thermal systems and processes. Of particular interest are validation of the model and linking the simulation with system performance, design...

.... Editor: Ali Khounsary. 29 01 2013 13 11 2013 This work focuses on a comparison of second law based component design on one hand and second law based system design on the other within the context of electronics cooling. Typical electronics cooling components such as a heat sink...

...Ivan Catton Optimization of heat exchangers (HE), compact heat exchangers (CHE) and microheat exchangers, by design of their basic structures is the focus of this work. Consistant models are developed to describe transport phenomena in a porous medium that take into account the scales and other...

...Jason Stafford; Ed Walsh; Vanessa Egan; Pat Walsh; Yuri S. Muzychka This paper discusses the importance of developing cooling solutions for low profile devices. This is addressed with an experimental and theoretical study on forced convection cooling solution designs that could be implemented...

...Chao Bai; Liqiu Wang We perform a constructal design of heat conduction in a blade-configured disk-shaped domain with uniform heat generation and periphery heat-sink by introducing a transition line from two-path conduction to one-path conduction in the domain. This orderly arranged blade...

...Jason M. Porter; Marvin E. Larsen; J. Wesley Barnes; John R. Howell The design of radiant enclosures is an active area of research in radiation heat transfer. When design variables are discrete such as for radiant heater arrays with on-off control of individual heaters, current methods of design...

...R. M. Moreno; Y.-X. Tao The design, performance, manufacturing, and experimental validation of two convective heat sinks with scalable dimensions are presented. The heat sinks consist of an array of elemental units arranged in parallel. Each elemental unit is designed as a network of branching...

.... By utilizing the optimality of branch systems in nature, an innovative layout design methodology of cooling channel in heat transfer system is suggested in this paper. The emergent process of branch systems in nature is reproduced according to their common growth mechanisms. Branches are grown under...

...Kenneth J. Bell The design process for heat exchangers in the process industries and for similar applications in the power and large-scale environmental control industries is described. Because of the variety of substances (frequently multicomponent, of variable and uncertain composition...