Numerical Simulations of Boiling Jet Impingement Cooling in Power Electronics

Sreekant Narumanchi; Andrey Troshko; Vahab Hassani; Desikan Bharathan

doi:10.1109/ITHERM.2006.1645344

Numerical Simulations of Boiling Jet Impingement Cooling in Power Electronics

Sreekant Narumanchi, Andrey Troshko, Vahab Hassani, Desikan Bharathan

Center for Integrated Mobility Sciences

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Abstract

Boiling jet impingement cooling is currently being explored to cool power electronics components. In hybrid vehicles, inverters are used for DC-AC conversion. These inverters involve a number of insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs), which are used as on/off switches. The heat dissipated in these transistors can result in heat fluxes of up to 200 W/cm², which makes the thermal management problem quite important. In this paper, turbulent jet impingement involving nucleate boiling is explored numerically. The framework for these computations is the CFD code FLUENT. For nucleate boiling, the Eulerian multiphase model is used. A mechanistic model of nucleate boiling is implemented in a user-defined function (UDF) in FLUENT. The numerical results for boiling water jets (submerged) are validated against existing experimental data in the literature. Some representative IGBT package simulations that use R134a as the cooling fluid are also presented.

Original language	American English
Pages	204-214
Number of pages	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHERM.2006.1645344 https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHERM.2006.1645344
State	Published - 2006
Event	10th Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena and Emerging Technologies in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2006 - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: 30 May 2006 → 2 Jun 2006

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Conference	10th Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena and Emerging Technologies in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2006
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego, CA
Period	30/05/06 → 2/06/06

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For preprint version see NREL/CP-540-39401

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-540-41188

Keywords

Boiling
CFD
IGBTs
Numerical simulations
Power electronics

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Narumanchi, S., Troshko, A., Hassani, V., & Bharathan, D. (2006). Numerical Simulations of Boiling Jet Impingement Cooling in Power Electronics. 204-214. Paper presented at 10th Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena and Emerging Technologies in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2006, San Diego, CA, United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHERM.2006.1645344, https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHERM.2006.1645344

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