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, Nicolas Lamaison, Raffaele Luca Amalfi

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, Chin Lee Ong, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison

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

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, Chin Lee Ong, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison

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, Chin Lee Ong, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison

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, Chin Lee Ong, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison

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, Chin Lee Ong, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison

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

Dynamic Modeling and Experimental Evaluation of a Controlled Two-Phase On-Chip Cooling System Designed for High Efficiency Datacenters

Nicolas Lamaison

An important challenge for the next generation of high performance datacenters is to guarantee sufficient, reliable, green and cheap cooling of the server blades. Since this seems unrealistic with air cooling technologies due to the expected ever higher ch ...

EPFL2014

Advances in Electronics Cooling

John Richard Thome, Jonathan Olivier, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison

This article highlights the advantages of on-chip microchannel cooling technology, based on first-and second-law analysis and experimental tests on two types of cooling cycles, the first driven by an oil-free liquid pump and the second by an oil-free vapor ...

Taylor & Francis2013

Two-Phase Flow Control of Electronics Cooling With Pseudo-CPUs in Parallel Flow Circuits: Dynamic Modeling and Experimental Evaluation

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison

On-chip two-phase cooling of parallel pseudo-CPUs integrated into a liquid pumped cooling cycle is modeled and experimentally verified versus a prototype test loop. The system's dynamic operation is studied since the heat dissipated by microprocessors is c ...

American Society of Mechanical Engineers2013

Efficiency Improvements of a Thermal Power Plant by Making Use of the Waste Heat of Large Datacenters using Two-Phase On-Chip Cooling

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Nicolas Lamaison

Cooling of datacenters is estimated to have an annual electricity cost of 1.4 billion dollars in the United States and 3.6 billion dollars worldwide. Currently, refrigerated air is the most widely used means of cooling datacenter’s servers. Modern datacent ...

2011