Research on heat transfer enhancement of variable cross sectional conformal cooling of injection mold based on fluent

The purpose of this paper is to present a technique of variable cross section conformal cooling channels (VCCC) to compare the cooling effect of moulds with equal section channel experimentally. The influence of the size structure parameters of the variable cross section conformal cooling channel on heat transfer is studied. It is found that the ratio of D/d=1.4 has the best effect of enhanced heat transfer. To determine the better heat transfer effect of variable cross section channel，this paper studies the influence of variable cross section channel and traditional equal section channel on heat transfer and takes temperature distribution, pressure drop and water velocity as evaluation indexes. In addition, in order to further discuss the effect of the conformal cooling channel structure, the influence of the opposite direction channel arrangement and the same direction arrangement on the heat transfer is studied. It is found that the adjacent channel of the opposite direction arrangement has better heat transfer effect and cooling uniformity.