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Combining complex flow manifold with three dimensional woven lattices as a thermal management unit

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1986738
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The present invention is directed to a manifold for directing cooling fluid and/or gas to a heat exchanger in a flow configuration designed to optimize heat transfer from the heat exchanger. The manifold can take many different forms such as a layered construction with distributed inlet paths, local outlet paths, a central collection changer and a path for fluid removal. The manifold can be formed from a metal, plastic, rubber, ceramic, or other heat resistant material known to or conceivable by one of skill in the art. The manifold can also be combined with any type of heat exchanger known to or conceivable by one of skill in the art to form a thermal management unit. To optimize overall properties such as low pressure drop, high heat transfer, and excellent temperature uniformity of the thermal management unit, the manifold can be graded, expanded and scaled as needed.
Research Organization:
Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Assignee:
The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
Patent Number(s):
11,480,398
Application Number:
15/161,849
OSTI ID:
1986738
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Metal foams as compact high performance heat exchangers journal December 2003
Permeability measurements and modeling of topology-optimized metallic 3-D woven lattices journal December 2014

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