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INVESTIGATION OF EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS ON ENTROPY GENERATION IN A SQUARE ELECTRONIC PACKAGE

Saeed Zaidabadi Nezad, Mohammad Mehdi Keshtkar^*

Mechanical Engineering Department, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran.

* Corresponding Author: Email: ,

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer 2018, 10, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.5098/hmt.10.11

Abstract

This work reports numerical optimization of natural convection in a square enclosure with local heating of the floor and symmetrical cooling of the sides. This analysis was done to optimize heat transfer from two semiconductors in a square electronic package. It became clear that the major part of entropy generation was due to irreversibility of heat transfer and a small amount of it was related to fluid friction. For heaters with equal power ratio, it is very unpleasant to place heaters near the middle plate of the enclosure, since peak temperatures and entropy generation are maximized.

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