Publications by Nicolas Lamaison

Role of a Liquid Accumulator in a Passive Two-Phase Liquid Cooling System for Electronics: Experimental Analysis

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Raffaele Luca Amalfi, Nicolas Lamaison

2018

Transient Data Processing of Flow Boiling Local Heat Transfer in a Multi-Microchannel Evaporator Under a Heat Flux Disturbance

John Richard Thome, Nicolas Lamaison, Houxue Huang

Multi-microchannel evaporators are often used to cool down electronic devices subjected to continuous heat load variations. However, so far, rare studies have addressed the transient flow boiling local heat transfer data occurring in such applications. The ...

Asme2017

Role Of A Liquid Accumulator In A Passive Two-Phase Liquid Cooling System For Electronics: Experimental Analysis

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison, Raffaele Luca Amalfi

Gravity-driven two-phase liquid cooling systems using flow boiling within micro-scale evaporators are becoming a game changing solution for electronics cooling. The optimization of the system's filling ratio can however become a challenging problem for a s ...

Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2017

Two-phase mini-thermosyphon electronics cooling: Dynamic modeling, experimental validation and application to 2U servers

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison, Chin Lee Ong

Gravity-driven cooling systems employing microchannel flow boiling can become a scalable and viable long term solution for the cooling of datacenter servers. In order to design this emerging type of cooling system, a new dynamic simulation tool using inter ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Two-Phase Mini-Thermosyphon For Cooling Of Datacenters: Experiments, Modeling And Simulations

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison, Raffaele Luca Amalfi, Chin Lee Ong

Nowadays, datacenters heat density dissipation follows an exponential increasing trend that is reaching the heat removal limits of the traditional air-cooling technology. Two-phase cooling implemented within a gravity-driven system represents a scalable an ...

Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2017

A new method for reducing local heat transfer data in multimicrochannel evaporators

John Richard Thome, Navid Borhani, Nicolas Lamaison, Houxue Huang

Measuring the strong local variation in heat transfer coefficients in multi-microchannel evaporators is related to the inverse heat conduction problem (IHCP). As the local flow heat transfer coefficients change greatly in magnitude from single-phase liquid ...

Elsevier France-Editions Scientifiques Medicales Elsevier2017

Two-Phase Mini-Thermosyphon Electronics Cooling, Part 4: Application to 2U Servers

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison, Chin Lee Ong

This paper is the fourth part of the present study on two-phase mini-thermosyphon cooling. As mentioned in the first three parts, gravity-driven cooling systems using microchannel flow boiling can become a long-term scalable solution for cooling of datacen ...

Ieee2016

Two-Phase Mini-Thermosyphon Electronics Cooling, Part 1: Experimental Investigation

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison, Chin Lee Ong

Efficient, small, state-of-the-art passive cooling two-phase systems, i.e. advanced micro-thermosyphon cooling systems, are viable solutions for high performance datacenter servers and power electronics cooling applications. The objective of this study is ...

Ieee2016

Two-Phase Mini-Thermosyphon Electronics Cooling, Part 3: Transient Modeling and Experimental Validation

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison, Chin Lee Ong

This paper is the third part of the present study on two-phase mini-thermosyphon cooling systems. As mentioned in the first two parts, gravity-driven cooling systems using microchannel flow boiling are a very promising long-term viable solution for electro ...

Ieee2016

Two-Phase Mini-Thermosyphon Electronics Cooling, Part 2: Model and Steady-State Validations

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison, Chin Lee Ong

In the present study, a simulation code specifically developed to evaluate the thermal-hydraulic performance of thermosyphon cooling loops is validated through the experimental results obtained in the Part 1. It considers levels of heat load conventionally ...

Ieee2016