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Enhanced Heat Transfer Performance By Shape Optimization Of A Non-Axisymmetric Droplet Evaporating On A Heated Micropillar, Haotian Wu
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Abstract
Enhanced Heat Transfer Performance by Shape Optimization of a Non-axisymmetric Droplet Evaporating on a Heated Micropillar
By
Haotian Wu
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Washington University in St. Louis, 2019
Research Advisor: Professor Damena Agonafer
The stacked multilayer 3D IC structure used in next generation high-powered electronics poses great challenges in dissipating their large heat flux, which causes extreme difficulties for traditional cooling technologies. In response, more advanced two-phase liquid cooling technologies, such as droplet evaporation, which utilizes the latent heat of vaporization to remove excessive heat, have been widely investigated. Compared to traditional single-phase cooling techniques, …