A plate-type heat transport device is provided. The plate-type heat transport device includes a metal plate having a meandering shape flow passage. The flow passage includes multiple linear channels and return channels. The linear channels extends in parallel to each other from a first end of the metal plate to a second end of the metal plate. The return channels are located in the first and second ends of the metal plate to allow the linear channels to communicate with each other. A first area of the metal plate associated with the linear channels is thinner than a second area of the metal plate associated with the return channels. The flow passage of the metal plate contains a hydraulic fluid.

Heat transfer devices, components thereof, and related methods are provided. Embodiments include heat transfer devices and/or heat transfer components including a spinodal structure having a bi-continuous topology obtained by modeling a spinodal decomposition process, wherein the spinodal structure having the bi-continuous topology is a spinodal shell structure or a spinodal solid structure. Embodiments include methods of making heat transfer devices and/or heat transfer components using additive manufacturing. Other further embodiments are provided in the present disclosure.

A method for fabricating an integrated heat pipe is disclosed. The integrated heat pipe includes a porous wick structure, a solid conducting structure, and an integrated part. In a CAD model, the porous wick structure is represented as a simple solid having a finite amount of mechanical interference; the solid conducting structure and the integrated part are represented as simple solids. After incorporating the CAD model into a 3D-printer build file, 3D-printer parameters representing the porous wick structure of the integrated heat pipe are assigned to a porous region component model within the 3D-printer build file, and standard 3D-printer parameters representing the solid conducting structure and the integrated part are assigned to a solid region component model within the 3D-printer build file. The 3D-printer build file is utilized to print the integrated heat pipe on a 3D printer.

A multilayer heat exchanger device comprising: a stack of plates arranged to provide multiple fluid flow paths separated by the plates; wherein at least some of the plates are pin fin plates that each have an array of pins extending outwards from the pin fin plate into the fluid flow paths; and wherein each pin comprises an inner end integrally formed with the pin fin plate, a mid-point along a longitudinal axis of the pin, and an outer end to be bonded to an adjacent plate; wherein the cross sectional area of the pin at the outer end is larger than the cross sectional area at the mid-point.

A heat exchanger for allowing heat to be exchanged between a first fluid and at least one other fluid comprises: a core comprising: at least one flow path; a manifold in communication with the at least one flow path; wherein the manifold comprises a void formed in the core; and the manifold comprises end caps, wherein at least one of the end caps is a non-flat end cap.

A self-healing metal structure is provided for transferring heat between an electronics component and a substrate. The self-healing metal structure includes a base metal structural component. A phase change material is provided adjacent at least a portion of the base metal structural component. A protective component at least partially encapsulates the phase change material. Upon the presence of a spatial defect in the base metal structural component, the phase change material reacts with the base structural component to form an intermetallic compound to at least partially occupy the spatial defect. The phase change material at least partially encapsulated with the protective component may be disposed within the base metal structural component as a plurality of separate capsules incorporated therein, or the phase change material at least partially surrounds the base metal structural component.

A ducted heat exchanger system for a gas turbine engine includes an additive manufactured heat exchanger core with a contoured external and/or internal geometry. A method of additively manufacturing a heat exchanger for a gas turbine engine includes additively manufacturing a core of a heat exchanger to set a ratio of local surface area to flow area to control a pressure drop per unit length along the core.

A counter-flow heat exchanger is provided that includes: a first fluid path having a first supply tube connected to a first transition area separating the first fluid path into a first array of first passageways, with the first array of first passageways merging at a first converging area into a first discharge tube; and a second fluid path having a second supply tube connected to a second transition area separating the second fluid path into a second array of second passageways, with the second array of second passageways merge at a second converging area into a second discharge tube. The first passageways and the second passageways have a substantially helical path around the centerline of the counter-flow heat exchanger. Additionally, the first array and the second array are arranged together such that each first passageway is adjacent to at least one second passageway.

A heat exchanger including an enclosure and a minimal surface structure within the enclosure. The enclosure including a first inlet, a first outlet, a second inlet, and a second outlet. The minimal surface structure separating a first volume and a second volume within the enclosure. The first inlet and the first outlet being in fluid communication with the first volume, and the second inlet and a second outlet being in fluid communication with the second volume. The first and second volumes separated from mixing with each other.

A heat exchanger is provided including a first manifold and a second manifold separated from the first manifold. A plurality of heat exchange tube segments are arranged in spaced parallel relationship and fluidly couple the first and second manifold. Each of the plurality of tube segments includes a first heat exchange tube and a second heat exchange tube at least partially connected by a web extending there between. The plurality of heat exchange tube segments includes a bend defining a first section and a second section of the heat exchange tube segments. The first section is arranged at an angle to the second section. A plurality of first fins extends form the first section of the heat exchange tube segments and a plurality of second fins extends from the second section of the heat exchange tube segments.