Journal of Thermal and Fluid Science
Vol. 1, Issue. 1, Aug 2020, pp 1 - 5
https://doi.org/10.26706/jtfs.1.1.20200701
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Journal of Thermal and Fluid Science www.rame.org.in
Sayali R. Bhalerao
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sayali16sb@gmail.com
R. R. Arakerimath
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rrarakerimath@gmail.com
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Department of Mechanical
Engineering,
G. H. Raisoni College of
Engineering and Management,
Pune, India
Experimental Investigation of
Micro fins for Heat Transfer
Enhancement by using Copper,
Aluminum and Aluminum with
Paint Coating as a Micro fins
Abstract— Computer applications have lately embraced micro technologies. Micro-
technologies are now being used in many cooling systems, but the thermal efficiency of
micro-fins under forced convective heat transfer conditions is still a little bit of an
unknown. Despite previous research, micro finned array architecture cannot be optimally
optimized based on Heat transfer coefficients and fine geometry correlations. This study
first time integrates a variety of heat sink measurements to offer an overview of microfin
behavior. Mass-specific heat transfer coefficient of penalties and efficiency of the fins.
Results from an original experiment are combined in this process with the most recent
data available in the literature. Microfins are always determined to be favorable in terms
of material utilization. There may be advantages to using these light micro fins in
applications that need a heat sink to have a minimum weight. In addition, the direction
has a modest influence.
Keywords— Heat transfer, Micro fin array, Reynolds numbers, forced convection,
aluminum paint, micro-fin, heat transfer, heat sink, cpv, cooling, micro heat sinks.
I. INTRODUCTION
There are a variety of fins that are used to improve heat
transfer from a structure to the fluid surrounding it.
Numerous studies have studied the use of fins which are
now being used for several different applications, such as
telecommunications, manufacturing processes which
electricity generation. Fins are known as passive coolers in
natural convection, as they do not need feedback of
mechanical or electrical power. Fins work by leveraging
both a thermal gradient's natural convective motion of a
fluid and the radiated heat transfer [1,6]. In general, passive
coolers are considered more robust and less vulnerable to
cooling failures [2,7] than active coolers, which still allow
additional input energy to work. Industries and customers
are also for manufacturing goods that are more effective,
more lightweight and cheaper. Because of the improved
efficiency obtained and the small space and resource
needed relative to macro-scaled approaches, micro
technologies have gained much attention in this context
over the last decades. Micro-cooling systems, particularly
micro-finned arrays under forced convection conditions,
have been the subject of much research. The thermal
efficiency of different finish forms has been studied in
several laboratory studies.. Since of the larger surface area
Research Article
Published online – 17 Aug 2020
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This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 International License
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Cite this article – Sayali R. Bhalerao and R. R. Arakerimath,
“Experimental investigation of micro fins for heat transfer enhancement
by using copper, aluminum and aluminum with paint coating as a micro
fins”, Journal of Thermal and Fluid Science, RAME Publishers, vol. 1,
issue 1, pp. 1-5, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.26706/jtfs.1.1.20200701