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2010 , Vol. 4 >Issue 2: 143 - 148

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11708-010-0013-1

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Heat-spreading analysis of a heat sink base embedded with a heat pipe

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  • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA;

Published date: 05 Jun 2010

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Abstract

A simplified model predicting the heat transfer performance of a heat sink base with a high thermal conductivity was developed. Numerical analysis was performed using the commercial software FLUENT. The investigation indicates that for heat sink bases with a high effective thermal conductivity, such as the base embedded with a typical heat pipe, the entire heat sink can be modeled as a flat plate with a uniform temperature and an effective convection heat transfer coefficient. This simplified model can be used to determine the heat transfer performance of a heat sink embedded with a typical heat pipe or vapor chamber.

Key words： heat pipe; heat sink; microprocessor heat removal

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B. V. BORGMEYER, H. B. MA, . Heat-spreading analysis of a heat sink base embedded with a heat pipe[J]. Frontiers in Energy, 2010 , 4(2) : 143 -148 . DOI: 10.1007/s11708-010-0013-1

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