National Science Foundation

Microscale Transport and Microchannels

Topology Optimization of Microchannel Heat Sinks using a Homogenization Approach project figure

Topology Optimization of Microchannel Heat Sinks using a Homogenization Approach

Time-Resolved Characterization of Microchannel Flow
Boiling During Transient Heating project figure

Time-Resolved Characterization of Microchannel Flow Boiling During Transient Heating

Transient Analysis of Non-Uniform Heat Input Propagation Through a Heat Sink Base project figure

Transient Analysis of Non-Uniform Heat Input Propagation Through a Heat Sink Base

A Permeable-Membrane Microchannel Heat Sink made by Additive Manufacturing project figure

A Permeable-Membrane Microchannel Heat Sink made by Additive Manufacturing

MicroICE (Microcooling for Intensely Concentrated Electronics) project figure

MicroICE (Microcooling for Intensely Concentrated Electronics)

High-Frequency Thermal-Fluidic Characterization of Dynamic Microchannel Flow Boiling Instabilities project figure

High-Frequency Thermal-Fluidic Characterization of Dynamic Microchannel Flow Boiling Instabilities

Evaluation of 3D Printing Technology for Microchannel Heat Sinks project figure

Evaluation of 3D Printing Technology for Microchannel Heat Sinks

Mechanistic Modeling of the Liquid Film Shape and Heat Transfer Coefficient in Annular-Regime Microchannel Flow Boiling project figure

Mechanistic Modeling of the Liquid Film Shape and Heat Transfer Coefficient in Annular-Regime Microchannel Flow Boiling

Two-Phase Flow Distribution Modeling and Stability Analysis project figure

Two-Phase Flow Distribution Modeling and Stability Analysis

A Saturated-Interface-Volume Phase Change Model for Simulating Flow Boiling project figure

A Saturated-Interface-Volume Phase Change Model for Simulating Flow Boiling

Fabrication and Characterization of a Hierarchical Manifold Microchannel Heat Sink Array for Evaporative Intrachip Cooling project figure

Fabrication and Characterization of a Hierarchical Manifold Microchannel Heat Sink Array for Evaporative Intrachip Cooling

Quantitative Visualization of Vapor Bubble Growth in Diabatic Vapor-Liquid Microchannel Slug Flow project figure

Quantitative Visualization of Vapor Bubble Growth in Diabatic Vapor-Liquid Microchannel Slug Flow

Investigation of Two-Phase Flow Structures for Improved Predictive Models project figure

Investigation of Two-Phase Flow Structures for Improved Predictive Models

Spurious Current Suppression in VOF-CSF Simulation of Slug Flow through Small Channels project figure

Spurious Current Suppression in VOF-CSF Simulation of Slug Flow through Small Channels

Effects of Heat Flux Asymmetries on Two-Phase Transport through Microchannels project figure

Effects of Heat Flux Asymmetries on Two-Phase Transport through Microchannels

Optimization of Manifold Microchannel Heat Sinks project figure

Optimization of Manifold Microchannel Heat Sinks

Determination of Liquid Film Thickness in Slug and Annular Flow project figure

Determination of Liquid Film Thickness in Slug and Annular Flow

Two Phase Liquid Jet Impingement Cooling project figure

Two Phase Liquid Jet Impingement Cooling

Surface Treatment for Boiling Heat Transfer Enhancement project figure

Surface Treatment for Boiling Heat Transfer Enhancement

Microscale Void Fraction Measurement and Two-Phase Flow Regime Trasition Models project figure

Microscale Void Fraction Measurement and Two-Phase Flow Regime Transition Models

Effects of Surface Roughness on Flow Boiling in Microchannels project figure

Effects of Surface Roughness on Flow Boiling in Microchannels

Effects of Surface Roughness and Wettability on Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer project figure

Effects of Surface Roughness and Wettability on Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer

Microchannel Inlet Manifold Analysis project figure

Microchannel Inlet Manifold Analysis

System-level Analysis of Microchannel Heat Sinks project figure

System-level Analysis of Microchannel Heat Sinks

Infrared PIV for Non-Intrusive Microfluidic Measurements project figure

Infrared PIV for Non-Intrusive Microfluidic Measurements

Single-Phase Microchannel Heat Sinks project figure

Single-Phase Microchannel Heat Sinks

Enhancement of Boiling in Microchannels project figure

Enhancement of Boiling in Microchannels

Experiments and Models for Two-Phase Transport of Water in
Microchannels project figure

Experiments and Models for Two-Phase Transport of Water in Microchannels

Two-Phase Transport of Dielectric Fluids through Silicon Microchannel Heat Sinks project figure

Two-Phase Transport of Dielectric Fluids through Silicon Microchannel Heat Sinks

Boiling in a microchannel video
Boiling of a dielectric in a microchannel