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Pulsed Detonation Engine Nozzle Design And Analysis, Rahul Kumar
Pulsed Detonation Engine Nozzle Design And Analysis, Rahul Kumar
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
For a hypersonic flight mission, different flight regimes have been recognized. The successful and efficient operation of the aircraft to traverse through all the flight regimes requires the integration of various propulsion cycles into a single flow path. Using the phenomenon of detonation initiation and propagation, a multi-mode detonation based propulsion concept was proposed for hypersonic flight. Of the different modes proposed, it was recognized that the efficient operation of Normal Detonation Wave Engine (NDWE) mode and Oblique Detonation Wave Engine (ODWE) mode played an important role as they delivered thrust at critical parts of the trajectory. For this study, …
Numerical Study Of Detonation Flame Arrestor Performance And Detonation Interaction With The Arrestor Element, Hoden Ali Farah
Numerical Study Of Detonation Flame Arrestor Performance And Detonation Interaction With The Arrestor Element, Hoden Ali Farah
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
A numerical study of detonation propagation and interaction with a flame arrestor product in a combustible gas/vapor transport pipeline system is conducted. The flame arrestor element is modeled as a porous medium using the Forchheimer equation, which is incorporated in the governing conservation equations as a momentum sink. The Forchheimer porous medium model is then used to model the flow through a representative four-inch detonation flame arrestor and is validated with experimental data. The detonation propagation simulation is modeled with the Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations extended for reacting flow. A 21-step chemical kinetic mechanism with 10 species is used …
Analysis Of Laminated Curved Beam With And Without Defects And Imperfections, Wei-Tsen Lu
Analysis Of Laminated Curved Beam With And Without Defects And Imperfections, Wei-Tsen Lu
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
Several studies have focused on the modeling and response characterization of composite structural members, with particular emphasis on composite curved beams. The class of curved beam is explored to determine mechanical response in primary aerospace structural applications. The present work focuses on developing analytical closed-form solutions for investigating composite curved beams with and without fiber waviness and delamination. The present work can efficiently characterize the structural behavior of composite curved beams under bending. This work shows the development of a novel mathematical approach to predict structural performance by investigating axial stiffness, bending stiffness with consideration of shear deformation in composite …
Improving Compressive Strength Of High Modulus Carbon-Fiber Reinforced Polymeric Composite With Varying Modulus Fibers, Sarvenaz Ghaffari
Improving Compressive Strength Of High Modulus Carbon-Fiber Reinforced Polymeric Composite With Varying Modulus Fibers, Sarvenaz Ghaffari
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
There has been a strong demand in using high-modulus (HM) carbon-fiber composites potentially enabling lightweight aircraft structures with significant weight savings. However, extremely low fiber-direction compressive strength has been a well-recognized weakness of the HM composites, preventing their implementation in aircraft platforms. Fiber-direction compressive strength of HM and intermediate-modulus (IM) carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (CFRP’s) is presumably governed by microstructural stability. However, strong decrease in fiber-direction compressive strength of HM carbon-fiber composites, compared to their intermediate modulus (IM) counterparts, contradicts predictions from available microstructural buckling theories. A recent work demonstrated that significant improvement in the fiber-direction compressive strength of HM carbon-fiber …
Numerical Study Of High–Frequency Fluidic Valve Injectors For Detonation Engine Applications, Sushma Yalavarthi
Numerical Study Of High–Frequency Fluidic Valve Injectors For Detonation Engine Applications, Sushma Yalavarthi
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
The feasibility of fluidic valves for use in detonation-based engines was studied numerically. The fluidic valve acted by shutting off reactant flow through the high pressure behind detonation waves propagating past the valve opening. The valve which featured a plenum cavity was mounted to the side of a pulsed detonation engine, an arrangement that allowed the valve to be characterized under a sustained operation. A series of different cavity lengths were studied. Further, a numerical study of the high-frequency fluidic valve was conducted by using a two-dimensional reactive Euler solver. A 19–step elementary mechanism was employed for the stoichiometric oxyhydrogen …
Droplet-Based Microextraction Of Dna Enabled By Electrowetting-On-Dielectric Digital Microfluidics, Shubhodeep Paul
Droplet-Based Microextraction Of Dna Enabled By Electrowetting-On-Dielectric Digital Microfluidics, Shubhodeep Paul
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
In recent years there have been significant advances in micro/nanotechnologies employing miniaturized platforms to achieve efficient sample pre-processing, separation, and quantification processes. The idea of bringing several lab-scale protocols on to a single chip, i.e., a lab-on-a-chip (LOC) device along with automation, is a reality now. Miniaturization of biochemical operations usually handled in a laboratory has numerous advantages, such as cost effectiveness, multiplexing, assay speed, and sensitivity. Microfluidic technologies used in LOC devices can manipulate tiny volumes of samples and reagents to perform on-chip protocols with minimal human intervention. Electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD)-based digital microfluidics (DMF) is one of the LOC platforms …
Dynamics Of A Pulse Detonation Engine Driven Linear Power Generator, Umang Umeshkumar Dighe
Dynamics Of A Pulse Detonation Engine Driven Linear Power Generator, Umang Umeshkumar Dighe
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
The dynamics of a pulse detonation engine driven linear power generator were studied. For an ideal pulse detonation engine, the thrust generated is in the form of a piecewise function given by the Endo-Fujiwara model. Nonlinear electromagnetic damping is also introduced in the system due to the rare earth permanent magnets present in the linear generator architecture. Various linear generator topologies were studied using static magnetic analysis. Two configurations of a single degree-of-freedom oscillator system, one with a linear spring restoring force and another with geometric nonlinear spring restoring force, were investigated to study any potential advantages of using nonlinear …
An Implementation Of The Regularized Extended Finite Element Method In Abaqus, Yu-Jui Liang
An Implementation Of The Regularized Extended Finite Element Method In Abaqus, Yu-Jui Liang
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
The Regularized eXtended Finite Element Method (Rx-FEM) methodology is a discrete damage modeling (DDM) technique, which represents an approach to the progressive damage analysis (PDA) in laminated composites when multiple damage events such as matrix cracks and delamination are introduced into the model via the displacement discontinuities. In the Rx-FEM, the Heaviside step function that is typically used to introduce a displacement discontinuity across a crack surface in the eXtended Finite Element Method (x-FEM) is replaced by a continuous function approximated by using the finite element (FE) shape functions. This regularization offers unique possibility for the implementation of the Rx-FEM …
Assessment Of Material State In Composites Using Global Dielectric State Variable, Vamsee Vadlamundi
Assessment Of Material State In Composites Using Global Dielectric State Variable, Vamsee Vadlamundi
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
Composites are heterogeneous in nature and a fundamental understanding of the material response to applied mechanical, thermal, electrical and other multi-physical fields is required to efficiently design and synthesize the material system and demands attention to long-term behavior in particular. Unlike metals, composites are designed to develop distributed damage and initiation of a single microscopic crack does not individually affect the strength/life of these materials. Therefore, the primary interest is not in single local events but in the process of interaction of multiple events that have a collective global effect on the material behavior. The interaction of these local events …
Electrowetting-On-Dielectric (Ewod) Digital Microfluidic Device For Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Matin Torabinia
Electrowetting-On-Dielectric (Ewod) Digital Microfluidic Device For Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Matin Torabinia
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
Over the past decades, microscale chemical reaction technology has been attractive in diverse areas of chemistry. It allows the precise control of quantified reagents and highly efficient heat and mass transfer, because of a large interface-to-volume ratio–particularly in case of the exothermic reaction and mixing–, reduced consumption of toxic or expensive agents, improved reaction profiles, and enhanced selectivity compared to macro-scale reactions. The mainstream microscale reaction processes were established using continuous microchannel flow systems, which has emerged as a powerful complement to batch chemistry on the laboratory scale due to relative advantages, some of which include: increased safety, more accurate …
Backstepping Approach For Design Of Cascaded Pid Controller With Guaranteed Trajectory Tracking Performance For Micro-Air Uav, Yusuf Kartal
Backstepping Approach For Design Of Cascaded Pid Controller With Guaranteed Trajectory Tracking Performance For Micro-Air Uav, Yusuf Kartal
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
Flight controllers for micro-air UAVs are generally designed using Proportional- Integral-Derivative (PID) methods, where the tuning of gains is difficult and time-consuming, and performance is not guaranteed. In this thesis, we develop a rigorous method based on the sliding mode analysis and nonlinear backstepping to design a PID controller with guaranteed performance. This technique provides the structure and gains for the PID controller, such that a robust and fast response of the UAV for trajectory tracking is achieved. First, the second-order sliding variable errors are used in a rigorous nonlinear backstepping design to obtain guaranteed performance for the nonlinear UAV …
Material Characterization And Fracture Prediction Of Fdm Printed Parts, Sanchita Sheth
Material Characterization And Fracture Prediction Of Fdm Printed Parts, Sanchita Sheth
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
In order to take advantage of the design freedom that Additive Manufacturing offers, most applications require reliable material characterization. This can ensure that a design performs within its environment and life requirements. This work discusses two models. One investigates the raster angle dependency of stiffness properties and the other numerically predicts fracture in Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) printed polymer parts. Pre-processing of FDM geometry was done in Abaqus CAE (SIMULIA TM). FEA and post-processing was done in BSAM, which is a damage prediction software developed for composites. BSAM uses a regularized extended finite element approach of Discrete Damage Modeling. In …
Development And Testing Of A Control Strategy For Dynamic Cooling At Rack Level In Data Centers, Amrutha Valli Rachakonda
Development And Testing Of A Control Strategy For Dynamic Cooling At Rack Level In Data Centers, Amrutha Valli Rachakonda
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
Cooling is a critical part of data center’s infrastructure, and with ongoing demands in data processing and storage, thermal management issues are of great concern. Some imperative methods of removing heat are either using air or liquid (preferably water or refrigerant). When high power density modules are involved, liquid cooling addresses some of the problems faced by air cooling as liquid coolants have higher thermal capacitance. Also, in the case of multi-chip modules, a non-uniform heating due to multi-core generates hot-spots and increases temperature gradients across the module. A dynamic cold plate along with a self-regulated flow control device was …
Static Response Calibration Of 3d Printed Thin Walled Structures Using Fused Deposition Modelling, Akhilesh Ravindra Kulkarni
Static Response Calibration Of 3d Printed Thin Walled Structures Using Fused Deposition Modelling, Akhilesh Ravindra Kulkarni
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
3-D printing has enabled flexible, tool-less fabrication that yields numerous benefits. One benefit is unique and complex structural arrangements that increase design freedom to minimize weight. Such arrangements can be guided by advanced topology, shape, and sizing optimization tools using appropriate process constraints to ensure a printable design and can include highly integrated structural details such as stiffeners, flanges, frames, and other connections. 3D printing thin wall aircraft structures presents challenges for material and structural characterization. 3D printing enables integrated structural details, each detail is affected by the print process capability to fabricate the local geometry and deviations from designed …
A Robust Controller Design For A Tailless Uav With Effective Control Allocation, Ethem Hakan Orhan
A Robust Controller Design For A Tailless Uav With Effective Control Allocation, Ethem Hakan Orhan
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
Attempts to completely remove the tails from aircraft can be dated back to the early days of modern aviation. A number of stability and control problems arising from the unique characteristics of the configuration resulted in poor handling qualities and some dangerous flight characteristics in the early designs. Lately, this configuration is becoming widespread again and the current state-of-the-art of fly-by wire technology and modern control design techniques enable design of tailless aircraft which are safe to fly. In this thesis, a study on the application of modern robust control design techniques on a tailless UAV is presented. A nonlinear …
Autonomous Carrier Landing Of A Fixed-Wing Uav With Airborne Deck Motion Estimation, Metin Kus
Autonomous Carrier Landing Of A Fixed-Wing Uav With Airborne Deck Motion Estimation, Metin Kus
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
This study focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of an autonomous carrier landing system featuring an airborne deck motion estimation module. The three-dimensional dynamics of a fixed-wing UAV with the actuator and engine dynamics are considered. A carrier motion model that accounts for the perturbations caused by various sea states is built. An airborne measurement system, which is composed of a calibrated camera and light-emitting beacons, is utilized to detect several coplanar target points on the moving carrier deck. The known correspondence between the locations of the target points and their coordinates on the focal plane of the camera …
Characterization Of Thermo-Mechanical Properties Of Copper Nano-Particles Infused Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (Abs)- 3d Printed Specimens, Viswajit Talluru
Characterization Of Thermo-Mechanical Properties Of Copper Nano-Particles Infused Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (Abs)- 3d Printed Specimens, Viswajit Talluru
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
Now a days the use of metal nanoparticle infused polymer is becoming widespread, since the development of polymer with enhanced thermal properties are being used for the growth of electronic packaging industry. In this study, copper nanoparticles are mixed with the Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) thermoplastic in varying mass proportions, to observe the changes in thermal and structural properties of ABS. As expected, the extruded wire with high nano-particle concentration exhibited much higher thermal conductivity than its raw ABS form. For the case of 2% copper nanoparticle infused ABS using one dimensional steady state heat flux method though extrude wire …
Modeling And Simulation Of Contact And Impact Dynamics In Multibody Systems, Abhishek Chatterjee
Modeling And Simulation Of Contact And Impact Dynamics In Multibody Systems, Abhishek Chatterjee
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
Contact and impact analyses are an essential part of multibody dynamic simulations. Modeling of contact and impact problems have applications in a wide variety of areas including robotics, earthquake engineering, computer graphics, and manufacturing. Collisions between objects typically take place over surfaces that are represented by a set of points in the operation space, thereby requiring multi-point contact and impact analysis. Analysis of multi-point contact and impact may lead to indeterminate (underdetermined) problems with more number of unknowns (contact forces) than equations. This work pertains to the problem of resolving multi-point contact and impact problems in multibody systems consisting of …
Numerical Simulation Of Biodiesel Synthesis In A Continuous Flow Microreactor And A Porous Media Reactor, Terdsak Neadkratoke
Numerical Simulation Of Biodiesel Synthesis In A Continuous Flow Microreactor And A Porous Media Reactor, Terdsak Neadkratoke
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
Biodiesel has become an increasingly popular fossil fuel substitute in recent years. Constant attempts are being made to develop new technology that increases the efficiency and yield of biodiesel production units. Numerical simulation can play an integral role in evaluating new reactor designs or optimizing existing ones. Various attempts have been made to develop an accurate computational model that represents biodiesel production. Many computational models for transesterification are based on simplified kinetic models that do not include the effect of saponification. Furthermore, many models assume isothermal conditions and uniform spatial concentrations. Therefore, these models would not be appropriate for evaluating …
Predicting Crack Initiation And Early Crack Growth Behavior Of Pure Nickel Using Surface Topography Analysis, Jalal Fathi Sola
Predicting Crack Initiation And Early Crack Growth Behavior Of Pure Nickel Using Surface Topography Analysis, Jalal Fathi Sola
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
Fatigue has long been studied as the most critical loading mode for man-made structures. Despite the advances in material behavior characterization and numerical calculation, many structures unexpectedly fail before their designed life. Most of the studies in crack initiation are solely for describing the material and failure behavior and are not capable of predicting the failure before it starts. In addition, most of the fatigue crack growth models are based on the Paris Model with some modifications, which their application is limited to long crack. This implies that finding new methods which can reliably predict material failure is very important. …
Nonlinear Control Of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles With Cable Suspended Payloads, Ameya Godbole
Nonlinear Control Of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles With Cable Suspended Payloads, Ameya Godbole
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
The research focuses on the mathematical modeling and control of an unmanned aerial vehicle with cable suspended payload. A comprehensive mathematical model is derived for a quadcopter with a cable suspended payload using the Newton-Euler method and the Euler-Lagrange formulation. These methods assume that the cable is massless and always taut and cannot be used to simulate the cases when the cable is flexible. Hence, an alternative approach to model the flexibility of the cable is presented using Lagrangian mechanics by approximating the cable to be a chain of serially connected links. The motion of the payload induces disturbances on …
The Effect Of Controlled Nanomaterial Deposition Towards Electrodes For Microbial Fuel Cells And Electrolysis Cells, Bryan Dennis Steinhoff
The Effect Of Controlled Nanomaterial Deposition Towards Electrodes For Microbial Fuel Cells And Electrolysis Cells, Bryan Dennis Steinhoff
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) are relatively new energy harvesting technologies that utilize the bacteria in wastewater or other organic-rich aqueous media to produce either electricity or hydrogen gas, respectively. Given that MFCs and MECs are newer technologies, there has been many works over the past two decades that have provided understanding into how modifying electrode surface chemistry can improve these cells. It has been widely known that increasing the surface functional groups of MFC anodes, either chemically or thermally, causes the cell power density to increase dramatically. Since MFCs and MECs use the same anodes, …
A Numerical Study Of Cavitating Flows Based On Plic-Vof Method For Arbitrary Unstructured Meshes, Dezhi Dai
A Numerical Study Of Cavitating Flows Based On Plic-Vof Method For Arbitrary Unstructured Meshes, Dezhi Dai
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations
Cavitation appears when local static pressure drops below the water vapor pressure and causes significant impacts on marine propeller blades. The Volume of Fluid (VOF) method, which is also referred to as the Transport Equation-based Model (TEM), has been extensively adopted in the cavitating flow simulations. Piecewise Linear Interface Calculation (PLIC) schemes have been extensively employed in the VOF method for interface capturing in numerical simulations of multiphase flows. Polyhedral unstructured meshes are often adopted due to their geometric flexibility and superiority in gradient calculation. Four analytical interface reconstruction algorithms in the PLIC-VOF method for arbitrary convex polyhedral cells have …
An Exploratory Study On Continuous Wave Laser And High-Speed Camera Combination In Planar Particle Image Velocimetry For Low Speed Flows, Bunyamin Gencler
An Exploratory Study On Continuous Wave Laser And High-Speed Camera Combination In Planar Particle Image Velocimetry For Low Speed Flows, Bunyamin Gencler
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
This study investigates the feasibility of using continuous wave lasers and high-speed CMOS cameras together in 2D particle image velocimetry (PIV) which is a widely-used non-intrusive method in experimental aerodynamics. In order to validate the setup, laminar and turbulent boundary layers over a flat plate with elliptical leading edge are examined in a low-speed wind tunnel. Before the experiments, the suitability of the elliptical-nose flat plate is determined (i.e. pressure gradient over the surface and separation), and the free-stream conditions (flow velocity and test section turbulence) are measured. To strengthen the validation of the setup, numerical simulations are added to …
Comparative Rack Level Cfd Analysis Of Air To Hybrid Cooling Data Center, Jay Umeshkumar Parekh
Comparative Rack Level Cfd Analysis Of Air To Hybrid Cooling Data Center, Jay Umeshkumar Parekh
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
The demand of data storage in the world is increasing, with this increase, demand for large data centers is growing. In response, we need to look for energy-efficient solutions to reduce the energy consumptions of the data centers. We want to reduce the energy used for cooling while keeping the data center equipment temperature in allowable range in high power density data center. The liquid or hybrid cooled servers are the alternatives that may be used instead of traditional air-cooled servers at Rack Level for the cooling power - different inlet temperatures and different percentage of hybrid cooling. This will …
Effect Of Sulfur - Porous Carbon Cathode Morphology On The Discharge Process In Lithium-Sulfur Battery, Sabarinathan Pushparajsubramaniyan
Effect Of Sulfur - Porous Carbon Cathode Morphology On The Discharge Process In Lithium-Sulfur Battery, Sabarinathan Pushparajsubramaniyan
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
In the present era, Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are most commonly used in all electronic devices, but the demand for alternative energy increases rapidly due to the catastrophic climate caused by excess use of fossil fuels in automobiles. Li-ion batteries cannot fully satisfy the need as its theoretical capacity is low, and the cathode cost is high. On the other hand, Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) battery meets the requirement with the highest theoretical capacity of Sulfur 1672 mAh/g. Lithium anode and Sulfur cathode together form to be having the highest energy density. The highest energy capacity of Sulfur is achieved by the conversion …
Molecular Dynamics (Md) Thermal Simulations Of Molecular Bridging Across The Cathode-Separator Interface In Li-Ion Cell, Abhijeet Sundarrao Dhakane
Molecular Dynamics (Md) Thermal Simulations Of Molecular Bridging Across The Cathode-Separator Interface In Li-Ion Cell, Abhijeet Sundarrao Dhakane
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
While Li-ion cells show outstanding electrochemical performance, their poor thermal transport characteristics results in reduced performance as well as significant safety concerns. The heterogeneous interface between cathode and separator plays a vital role in the dissipation of heat within a Li-ion cell. Previous studies showed that the cathode-separator interfacial thermal resistance contributes around 88% of total thermal resistance within the cell. In this research, thermal conductance across the cathode-separator interface is calculated using molecular dynamics simulations. Thermal transport in a pristine heterogeneous interface as well as interfaces functionalized with monolayers of APTES, nBTMS and MPTMS molecules is studied. The impact …
Multi-Variable Optimization To Improve Temperature Uniformity In Burn-In Applications Subjected To Significant Thermal Shadowing, Ajinkya Suhas Mahajan
Multi-Variable Optimization To Improve Temperature Uniformity In Burn-In Applications Subjected To Significant Thermal Shadowing, Ajinkya Suhas Mahajan
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
Burn-in test typically employs voltage and/or temperature to accelerate the appearance of latent reliability defects in semiconductor devices. As a result, burn-in becomes a critical step in the parts screening process and is the primary technique to eliminate defective parts in the early phase of the product life. Thermal control in burn-in processes is generally achieved by either active or passive thermal controlling. In an active thermal control, each device has an individual temperature monitoring system to maintain a specific temperature in which the cooling/heating of each socket is controlled by an individual fan or heater. Whereas in passive thermal …
Comparative Cfd Analysis Of The Effect Of Air And Liquid Cooling On The Form Factor Of Gpu Server, Ankit Bharatkumar Sutaria
Comparative Cfd Analysis Of The Effect Of Air And Liquid Cooling On The Form Factor Of Gpu Server, Ankit Bharatkumar Sutaria
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
Artificial intelligence (AI) has becoming an important area which may significantly impact everyone’s daily life. This means a lot of high-performance chips such as high-performance CPU, GPU, FPGA (Field-programmable gate array), ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) devices may need. The thermal design power (TDP) of these chips are high, and now it is very common to see a processor TDP reaches as high as 300Watts[1]. When these high-power density processors are packaged together, the power density of the servers and compute boxes are significantly high. Traditional air-cooling is approaching its cooling capability limitation, especially when a cluster of racks is …
Design And Optimization Of Additively Manufactured Heat Sink And Heat Spreader For Microelectronics Cooling, Aditya Krishna Ganesh Ram
Design And Optimization Of Additively Manufactured Heat Sink And Heat Spreader For Microelectronics Cooling, Aditya Krishna Ganesh Ram
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses
High performance cooling is a critical requirement for modern microprocessors that generate large amounts of non-uniformly distributed heat. Metal heat spreaders and heat sinks have been traditionally used for thermal management. While the design of these components has traditionallly been restricted by manufacturability, in recent years, additive manufacturing has offered the capability to manufacture almost any design. This work analyzes and optimizes the performance of an additively manufactured heat sink and heat spreader. Computational heat transfer simulations were carried out to understand the variation of chip temperature and pressure drop for various designs. Discussion of key findings include the thermal …