Patent ID: 11859920
Assignee: FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
Field: Thermal processes and apparatus (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F | IPC F

Claim 11:
12. A heat exchanger, comprising:
an enclosed cooling fluid channel comprising a heat transfer surface, the cooling fluid channel adapted to receive a flow of a liquid cooling fluid along a length of the cooling fluid channel;
an anchor extending across the cooling fluid channel in a direction perpendicular to the length of the cooling fluid channel and parallel to the heat transfer surface;
an active vortex generator affixed to the anchor and configured to extend in a direction parallel to the heat transfer surface, wherein the active vortex generator is positioned proximate to a heat flux dissipation location with two-phase heat transfer; and
an actuator coupled to the anchor and configured to move the anchor along an oscillation path within the cooling fluid channel to prevent a transition to film boiling at the heat flux dissipation location.