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Quantify the advantage of turbulent flow over laminar flow in cold plate for transient analysis
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If you are dealing with transient convection, I would imagine that a numerical solution is necessary. If you have access to a CFD package, it would be relatively simple to build a few models and run them with varying Reynolds numbers. You could try doing the numerics by "hand" (self programmed) but that would get quite complicated. That would involv building a node network, setting up the Navier-Stokes equations at each node, boundary and initial conditions, and using which ever numerical method you believe would be accurate to propagate through your model.
Nusselt number can be expressed as a function Reynolds number, and Nusselt number is directly proportional to convective heat transfer coefficient.
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