ENHANCEMENT OF HEAT TRANSFER FROM PLATE FIN HEAT SINKS

S.D.Ratnakar, D.D.Palande

Abstract: Heat Sinks are an extremely useful component used to lower the maximum temperature of various electronic devices during operation so as to increase their thermal efficiency and performance. Fins constitute an important and integral component of sinks. It is a passive cooling technique. Plate fin heat sinks are used in varied applications owing to its low manufacturing cost, ease of manufacture and its economical way to dissipate unwanted heat. Steady state natural convection is experimentally investigated for 03 sets of vertically mounted fin heat sinks. Aluminum is used because of its high conductivity. Length and fin thickness is kept constant at 200 mm and 05 mm respectively. Fin height is successively increased as 10mm, 30mm, 50mm.Aspect Ratio for above three sets is thus 0.05, 0.15 and 0.25 respectively. Effect of varying height, heat input and aspect ratio, keeping length constant is investigated on heat transfer through the sinks.

Keywords: Heat Sinks, Fins, Natural Convection, Aspect Ratio.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0405023