Multiphase Electronics Cooling
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Optimized utilization of two-phase phenomena is at the leading edge of thermal management across a wide swath of industries. Our research spans technologies targeted at addressing limits in thermal acquisition and transport for increasingly power-dense systems. With concurrent efforts in areas including thermoflluidic instability analysis and control, high-quality flow visualization, and microchannel characterization we aim to push the bounds of space, aerospace, and terrestrial capabilities.
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Research Highlights
Closed-loop methanol flash boiling
Coming soon…
TVAC testing with in-vacuum IR radiometry
High-quality radiator panel testing using IR thermography unimpeded by viewports. Our optically transparent vacuum chamber (built entirely in-house) enables high speed videography of Si-glass OHPs among other tests.
Enhanced flow boiling with reentrant cavities
Charterization of reentrant cavities in custom anodically bonded Si-BF33 parallel/ channels under heat fluxes upwards of 3W/mm2
OHP Data assimilation-informed computational modeling
In collaboration with UCLA’s SOPHIA lab, developing an immersed-boundary method model that addresses stochastic uncertainties in OHP operation using data assimilation
Coming soon: capacitive vapor quality measurement
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Coming soon: Microchannel slug-plug visualization and tracking
A developing effort includes fabrication of a metal-ceramic oscillating heat pipe for flow visualization and high frequency optical slug tracking
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