Thermal Performance of the Thin Heat Pipe for Cooling of Solid-State Drives
With the rapid development of information science and technology, the demand for computer data processing is increasing, resulting in the rapid growth of the demand for high-power and high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs). The stable operation of SSDs plays an important role in ensuring the rel...
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| author | Dongdong Yuan Jiajia Chen Yong Yang Liyong Zhang Songyan Liu Huafei Jiang Ning Qian |
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| description | With the rapid development of information science and technology, the demand for computer data processing is increasing, resulting in the rapid growth of the demand for high-power and high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs). The stable operation of SSDs plays an important role in ensuring the reliable working conditions and appropriate temperature of information technology equipment, rack servers, and related facilities. However, SSDs usually have significant heat emissions, putting forward higher requirements for temperature and humidity control, and consequently the heat sink system for cooling is essential to maintain the proper working state of SSDs. In this paper, a new type of thin heat pipe (THP) heat sink is proposed, and the heat transfer performance and cooling effect are experimentally and numerically studied. The numerical results are compared with experimental results, which showed an error within 5%. Single and double heat pipes were investigated under different input powers (from 5 W to 50 W) and different placement angles between 0° and 90°. The heat transfer performance of the new heat sink is analyzed by the startup performance, the evaporator temperature, and the total thermal resistance. The results show that the new double THPs with a 90° angle have a great advantage in the heat transfer performance of SSDs. The research is of great significance for the design and optimization of the SSDs’ cooling system in practical applications. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d9b024e6362a4f79b7752a6287a981bd2023-11-24T05:51:06ZengMDPI AGMetals2075-47012022-10-011211178610.3390/met12111786Thermal Performance of the Thin Heat Pipe for Cooling of Solid-State DrivesDongdong Yuan0Jiajia Chen1Yong Yang2Liyong Zhang3Songyan Liu4Huafei Jiang5Ning Qian6College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, ChinaCollege of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, ChinaCollege of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, ChinaCollege of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, ChinaCollege of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, ChinaCollege of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, ChinaCollege of Mechanical and Electronical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, ChinaWith the rapid development of information science and technology, the demand for computer data processing is increasing, resulting in the rapid growth of the demand for high-power and high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs). The stable operation of SSDs plays an important role in ensuring the reliable working conditions and appropriate temperature of information technology equipment, rack servers, and related facilities. However, SSDs usually have significant heat emissions, putting forward higher requirements for temperature and humidity control, and consequently the heat sink system for cooling is essential to maintain the proper working state of SSDs. In this paper, a new type of thin heat pipe (THP) heat sink is proposed, and the heat transfer performance and cooling effect are experimentally and numerically studied. The numerical results are compared with experimental results, which showed an error within 5%. Single and double heat pipes were investigated under different input powers (from 5 W to 50 W) and different placement angles between 0° and 90°. The heat transfer performance of the new heat sink is analyzed by the startup performance, the evaporator temperature, and the total thermal resistance. The results show that the new double THPs with a 90° angle have a great advantage in the heat transfer performance of SSDs. The research is of great significance for the design and optimization of the SSDs’ cooling system in practical applications.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/12/11/1786solid state diskthin heat pipethermal resistanceheat transfer performance |
| spellingShingle | Dongdong Yuan Jiajia Chen Yong Yang Liyong Zhang Songyan Liu Huafei Jiang Ning Qian Thermal Performance of the Thin Heat Pipe for Cooling of Solid-State Drives Metals solid state disk thin heat pipe thermal resistance heat transfer performance |
| title | Thermal Performance of the Thin Heat Pipe for Cooling of Solid-State Drives |
| title_full | Thermal Performance of the Thin Heat Pipe for Cooling of Solid-State Drives |
| title_fullStr | Thermal Performance of the Thin Heat Pipe for Cooling of Solid-State Drives |
| title_full_unstemmed | Thermal Performance of the Thin Heat Pipe for Cooling of Solid-State Drives |
| title_short | Thermal Performance of the Thin Heat Pipe for Cooling of Solid-State Drives |
| title_sort | thermal performance of the thin heat pipe for cooling of solid state drives |
| topic | solid state disk thin heat pipe thermal resistance heat transfer performance |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/12/11/1786 |
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