Investigations of effect of radial flow impeller type swirl generator fitted in an electronic heat sink and Al2O3/water nanofluid on heat transfer enhancement

In this paper experimental investigations on convective heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics in a novel electronic heat sink fitted with dynamic mixers using water and Al2O3/water nanofluid are presented. For this, Al2O3 nanoparticles of average size 47 nm are synthesized using microwave assisted chemical precipitation method and characterized using XRD and SEM. Heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of water and nanofluid are studied in the electronic heat sink of base size 60 mm × 60 mm made of copper with and without the dynamic mixer. The enhancements in the heat transfer and pressure drop results are compared with water and the heat sink without any mixer. The results reveal that there is significant increase in the convective heat transfer when the dynamic mixer is used for enhancing the heat transfer and further increase in heat transfer is found for the nanofluid. The rise in pressure drop compared with the increase of heat transfer is less.