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Asked 3rd Mar, 2015
  • (University of Anbar - Iraq)

What is the mass flow or inlet air velocity required to cool a CPU heatsink using jet impingement flow?

I'm just asking about how much the inlet air mass flow rate OR inlet air velocity to cool heat sinks of CPU of a desktop PC as a jet impingement flow?

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Vipin Yadav
Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology
Actually the jet impinging on a heat transfer surface creates a thin boundary layer, and thus a high heat transfer rate is possible. Roughly speaking, the heat transfer coefficient can range 1000-3000 W/sq. m-K and this cooling method can handle heat flux as high as 1 MW/sq.m.  Determining precise heat transfer through jet impingement is very complicated, and depends on many factors such as the Reynolds number, the Prandtl number, jet diameter, wall-to-nozzle spacing. Getting bit deeper on the issue, there are three common jet configurations viz. free-surface jet, submerged jet and confined submerged jet.

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Zol Bahri Razali
Universiti Malaysia Perlis
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Maddali V S Murali Krishna
Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology
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Majid Zarif
Ferdowsi University Of Mashhad
first you should assume the mass flow rate and you should know what is the max available surface temperature you can calculate your first value of mass flow rate by the balance of heat rate and assume inflow and outflow temp.after adding the boundary conditions such as the heat rate and inflow temperature and... after convergence of residuals you can know the Temperature distribution on your CPU the max temperature of CPU after that if the max surface temp is upper that the available value you should increase the mass flow rate and if not you should decrease it
Amer Al-ani
(University of Anbar - Iraq)
thanks for everyone.
for others people, please answer me if there are more ideas.
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Vipin Yadav
Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology
Actually the jet impinging on a heat transfer surface creates a thin boundary layer, and thus a high heat transfer rate is possible. Roughly speaking, the heat transfer coefficient can range 1000-3000 W/sq. m-K and this cooling method can handle heat flux as high as 1 MW/sq.m.  Determining precise heat transfer through jet impingement is very complicated, and depends on many factors such as the Reynolds number, the Prandtl number, jet diameter, wall-to-nozzle spacing. Getting bit deeper on the issue, there are three common jet configurations viz. free-surface jet, submerged jet and confined submerged jet.

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