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Metal Foams: A Design Guide

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230 <strong>Metal</strong> <strong>Foams</strong>: A <strong>Design</strong> <strong>Guide</strong><br />

where h is the average heat transfer coefficient from the electronics into the<br />

coolant, and Tf is the average temperature of the fluid. The design used to<br />

approach this maximum entails the use of heat spreaders and planar microheat-pipes.<br />

Based on equations (17.1) and (17.2), for the heat sink to be<br />

reduced to 3 cm, a heat transfer coefficient exceeding about 3 kW/m 2 Kis<br />

needed. Such levels can be readily realized using liquids, but are well in excess<br />

of those now achievable with air cooling (Figure 17.12). The challenge is to<br />

determine whether cellular metals can attain such high h with air.<br />

Cellular metal performance<br />

For the airflows needed to realize these h, a fan/blower configuration with<br />

requisite operating characteristics must be designed. These characteristics typically<br />

exhibit a nearly linear interdependence between back pressure 1p and<br />

volume flow rate, PV (Table 17.1), with 1p Ł and PV Ł as the respective perfor-<br />

Table 17.1 Formulae for calculating achievable heat dissipation<br />

(1) Heat extracted over sink area (4b 2 )<br />

q D v[Tj T0] fcp⊲Hs/2bhs⊳[1 exp⊲ 2bhs/ℓ⊳]<br />

(2) Transfer length<br />

ℓ D 4.1v ⊲1<br />

�<br />

fcpHsd<br />

1 C<br />

⊳kmBi ⊲1<br />

2<br />

⊳ p Bi tanh<br />

� p<br />

Hs Bi<br />

1.24d<br />

(3) Biot number<br />

Bi D 1.04<br />

� fcp<br />

kf<br />

�0.4 �<br />

vd<br />

�0.4 � �<br />

kf<br />

1 ˛<br />

(where ˛ D 0.37 p C 0.055 )<br />

(4) Pressure drop in sink<br />

1p D 0.75 p<br />

�<br />

0.4<br />

f v1.6<br />

d 1.4 ⊲1 ˛⊳ 1.6<br />

(5) Operating characteristics of pump<br />

1p D 1pŁ [1 vhsbhs/ PV Ł ]<br />

(6) Fluid flow rate<br />

�<br />

km<br />

1pŁ [1 2vbhs/ PV Ł 0.4<br />

p fvf ] D 0.75<br />

d 1.4<br />

v 1.6<br />

⊲1 ˛⊳ 1.6<br />

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