Electronic Cooling and Development of Numerical Schemes

Simulation time for all engineering systems represents a significant decision criterion in any product design cycle. For any system involving heat transfer and fluid flow, the adequacy of the convection model plays a significant role. However, accuracy and processing time are two major challenging factors with previous advection schemes. Also, the demands for removing waste heat from these simulation devices are outpacing advances in the development of the very large-scale integration (VLSI) technology. A new simulation tool known as Non-Inverted Skew Upwind Scheme[1], for 3-D fluid flow and heat transfer problems, has been developed. This new upwind scheme for convection modeling in CFD was undertaken with the aim of providing improvement to solution accuracy, while reducing CPU time costs. Future studies include the development of efficient heat pipe technology, an hybrid convection scheme and its integration for complex industrial problems, including Lattice-Boltzmann simulation for nano-structured process modelling.

List of publications under this area of research interest include:

·         E.O.B. Ogedengbe and M.A. Rosen, “Electrokinetic Pumping Considering Slip Irreversibility for Cooling Electronic Chips”, 22nd Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, Halifax, NS, May 31-Jun 4, 2009

·         E.O.B. Ogedengbe and G.F. Naterer, “Preconditioned Solver Performance with Compressed Banded Data Format in 3-D Convective Heat Transfer Simulations”, Numerical Heat Transfer A, vol. 48, no. 10, pp. 965 – 985, 2005

·         E.O.B. Ogedengbe and G.F. Naterer, “Three-Dimensional Distributed Mass Weighting for Non-Inverted Convective Skew Upwinding”, AIAA Journal of Thermophysics & Heat Transfer,  vol. 18, pp. 502 - 510, 2004

·         E.O.B. Ogedengbe and G.F. Naterer, “Non-Inverted Skew Upwind Scheme for Three Dimensional Convective Transport”, Numerical Heat Transfer B, vol. 46, n. 2, pp. 141 - 164, 2004

 


 

[1] E.O.B Ogedengbe, (2006), Non-Inverted Skew Upwind Scheme for Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Simulations, Ph.D Thesis, University of Manitoba

 

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