GOALI: 3D-printed biomimetic structures for enhanced boiling heat transfer and thermal management

GOALI：3D 打印仿生结构可增强沸腾传热和热管理

• 批准号: 2149489
• 负责人: Calvin Hong Li
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Villanova University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2149489&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GOALI; 3D; printed; biomimetic; structures

Boiling heat transfer is one the most efficient ways of removing heat from a hot surface by changing the coolant from liquid to vapor. Boiling has been widely employed in thermal management of power generation, refrigeration and air conditioning systems, electronic devices, and other high-power density systems. This GOALI project will study fundamental aspects of liquid supplies and boiling heat transfer as affected by surface structure characteristics that include a novel biomimetic structure. This will be integrated into commercial heat exchangers that can potentially achieve significant increase in heat transfer performance. The biomimetic structures will be designed by a leaf-vein growth algorithm and manufactured by 3D metal printing. In addition to liquid supplies and boiling heat transfer tests, the biomimetic structures will be tested in commercial products for durability and fouling. The results of the study will assist both in developing basic understanding of boiling heat transfer by biomimetic structures and in developing next-generation commercial products for electronic devices and data center cooling. Research results and activities will be integrated into educational and outreach programs for underrepresented groups and the public, including hands-on 3D biomimetic structure design and manufacture, and heat transfer tests.Enhancements of the critical heat flux and heat transfer coefficient in boiling heat transfer are dictated by the maximum liquid supply and the bubble generation rate. The limits for enhancements will be examined and optimized through numerical simulations and experiments. A biomimetic structure will address the limits of hydrodynamic instability and viscous choking of liquid supply perpendicular to the heating surface, and of liquid wetting/wicking parallel to the heating surface. Critical structural characters and surface properties will be fabricated by 3D metal printing and tuned by atomic layer deposition. The structural characters and surface properties will be directly correlated to liquid supply and bubble nucleation and quantified by models.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

沸腾传热是通过将冷却剂从液体变为蒸汽来从热表面去除热量的最有效方法之一。沸腾已被广泛应用于发电、制冷和空调系统、电子设备和其他高功率密度系统的热管理。该GOALI项目将研究受表面结构特征（包括一种新型仿生结构）影响的液体供应和沸腾传热的基本方面。这将集成到商业热交换器中，可以潜在地显著提高传热性能。仿生结构将通过叶脉生长算法设计，并通过3D金属打印制造。除了液体供应和沸腾传热测试外，仿生结构还将在商业产品中进行耐久性和污垢测试。研究结果将有助于发展对仿生结构沸腾传热的基本理解，并有助于开发用于电子设备和数据中心冷却的下一代商业产品。研究成果和活动将整合到教育和推广计划中，面向代表性不足的群体和公众，包括动手3D仿生结构设计和制造，以及传热测试。沸腾传热中临界热流密度和传热系数的提高取决于最大供液量和气泡生成速率。增强的限制将通过数值模拟和实验进行检查和优化。仿生结构将解决垂直于受热面的液体供应的流体动力学不稳定性和粘性堵塞的限制，以及平行于受热面的液体润湿/吸干。关键的结构特征和表面性能将通过3D金属打印和原子层沉积来调节。结构特征和表面性能将与液体供应和气泡成核直接相关，并通过模型量化。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。