Effect of sintering columns on the heat transfer and flow characteristics of the liquid cooling vapor chambers

Abstract

The results of the heat and flow characteristics of working fluid inside the vapor chamber with different sintering columns of 20, 81, 225 are presented. The vapor chambers with one inlet port and four outlet ports are tested by using water as coolant. Parametric studies including different heat fluxes, number and size of wick columns, and flow rate of coolants on the cooling performance are considered. A three-dimensional heat and mass transfer model for vapor chamber with wick and without sintering plate and sintering columns are developed. The numerical simulation results show the velocity and pressure distribution of liquid and vapor phases of the working fluid inside the vapor chamber. It is found that the number of wick column have an important influence to the velocity and pressure phenomena of working fluid which results in thermal performance of vapor chamber. Reasonable agreement is obtained from the comparison between the measured data and the predicted results. © 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.