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

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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.

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA

    B. V. Borgmeyer & H. B. Ma

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Borgmeyer, B.V., Ma, H.B. Heat-spreading analysis of a heat sink base embedded with a heat pipe. Front. Energy Power Eng. China 4, 143–148 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11708-010-0013-1

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