Predicting the Thermal Behavior in Functional Textile Fibers Having Embedded Electronics
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Berry, Shaun
Redmond, Shawn
Wang, Tairan
Rothschild, Mordechai
Date Issued
September 8, 2022
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Berry, Shaun, Redmond, Shawn, Wang, Tairan and Rothschild, Mordechai. 2022. "Predicting the Thermal Behavior in Functional Textile Fibers Having Embedded Electronics."
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Abstract
AbstractIn this paper, both steady-state and transient thermal simulations were performed on functional fibers having an embedded electronic chip acting as a heat source. Simulations were conducted for a range of different fiber materials and arbitrary fiber cross-sectional shapes. We show that under steady-state heating conditions, the thermal response for any arbitrary fiber shape and fiber material system was convection dominated regardless of the effective thermal conductivity of the fiber, and that the corresponding temperature rise within the fiber can be predicted analytically allowing for the maximum temperature to be estimated for any known heat load and fiber geometry. In the case of transient heating, we show that for pulsed power operation of the embedded electronic device, the maximum temperature reached in the fiber is always greater than the maximum temperature of the equivalent steady-state average power. However, high peak powers can be safely achieved if the power-on pulse time and duty cycle are selected to limit the maximum temperature reached in the fiber. Based on the results from the transient simulations, a set of criteria was developed to determine whether the operating conditions would be: (1) allowable for the fiber system, thus requiring no transient simulations, (2) requiring a transient simulation to verify that the maximum temperature is acceptable, and (3) the operating conditions are too severe and device operation at these conditions are not practical.
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General Materials Science
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Lincoln Laboratory
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s42765-022-00195-y
