Abstract

As technology provides smaller devices with greater heat dissipation needs, microfludic systems become essential. The scale of device architecture causes concerns to arise that were previously not an issue. The results of manufacturing processes, such as roughness structures on machined surfaces, now play a significant role in transport phenomena. This study takes an analytical and experimental approach to understanding the fundamental heat transfer process in rectangular channels with artificially roughened walls. Steady, incompressible, fully developed liquid flow is modeled with lubrication theory to develop an expression for the fully developed Nusselt number. The heat transfer performance of the small aspect ratio rectangular channels with two wall heating under the H2 boundary condition is experimentally investigated. A constant wall heat flux is applied at opposing long walls. Four different structured roughness geometries are investigated along with smooth channels as the heated walls. In total, hydraulic diameters ranged from Dh=183 µm to Dh = 1698 µm and were tested over a Reynolds number range of 45 to 600. The pitch to height ratio of the sinusoidal roughness surfaces covered the ranged of 2.6 to 10.6. The resulting relative roughness was 2.17% to 16.53%. Fully developed Nusselt was found to lie below classic theory. Sinusoidal roughness geometries were found not to provide heat transfer enhancement over smooth channel walls.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Heat--Transmission; Fluid dynamics; Fluid-structure interaction

Publication Date

2010

Document Type

Thesis

Department, Program, or Center

Mechanical Engineering (KGCOE)

Advisor

Kandlikar, Satish

Comments

Note: imported from RIT’s Digital Media Library running on DSpace to RIT Scholar Works. Physical copy available through RIT's The Wallace Library at: QC320 .S36 2010

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

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