Cooling the future, one solar cell at a time
Assessing the cooling properties of phase-changing nanofluids for heat dissipation
Heat Transfer
Assessed heat transfer from the heated syringe into the heat sink by forced convection and conduction
Thermodynamics
Calculated Coefficients of Performance (COP) for various models of heat sinks and compared those values to the available literature
Fluid Dynamics
Calculated expected pressure losses due to viscous friction and compared those values to pressure readings
Systematized a consistent test workbench to get temperature and pressure readings
Performed time series analysis for temperature and pressure data in MATLAB and MS Excel
Compared COPs obtained with the available literature
Potential applications in cooling of solar cells and microprocessors
Adapted from International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer