Convective heat dissipation with lattice-frame materials

Convective heat transfer and pressure losses across novel heat sinks fabricated by Selective Laser Melting

“…The high thermal conductivity of the metal combined with the eddies generated within the foam act to provide about five times the heat transfer when compared to a pin fin array, but with the added penalty of high pressure drop. Lattice type materials consisting of angled cylinders were investigated by Kim et al [20][21][22] for applications where heat sinks are also required to carry structural loads; their performance was found to be similar to that of a bank of cylinders.…”

Forced convection in metallic honeycomb structures

“…Comparisons between the overall thermal performances of metal honeycomb structures and selected heat sink media, including metal foams [23][24][25][26][27][28][29], lattice-frame materials [30][31][32][33], Kagome structures [34], and woven textile structures [35,36], are presented in Fig. 9.…”

An X-type lattice cored ventilated brake disc with enhanced cooling performance

“…2) with fluid-through cellular three-dimensional topologies and thin solid ligaments appear to be promising heat dissipation media for the ventilated brake disc. Such PCMs provide excellent capability of bearing simultaneous mechanical and thermal loads [41][42][43][44], which meets the mechanical requirements especially compressive and shear strengths for ventilated brake disc.…”