10/11/2020 Heat transfer dynamics inside the Drop-on-Demand inkjet printhead with a hybrid thermal lattice Boltzmann model

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Applied Thermal Engineering

Volume 159, August 2019, 113789

Research Paper

Heat transfer dynamics inside the Drop-on-Demand inkjet

printhead with a hybrid thermal lattice Boltzmann model
Lei Zhang a , Xiaoding Cheng b

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Abstract
The heat transfer dynamics inside the Drop-on-Demand (DoD) printhead play a significant
role for improving temperature compensation and jetting reproducibility. A three-
dimensional hybrid thermal lattice Boltzmann model is employed to explore the temperature
distributions within the ink chamber in DoD droplet jetting process. The scenarios including
heated walls resulting from deformation of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) and heat sources
coupled with heated substrate are investigated. It is found that the isotherms evolutions are
hindered from heat walls to the center of ink chamber by the velocity fields during the droplet
jetting process. The thermal fields adjacent to the inlet and outlet regions are affected by the
thermal boundaries with lower temperature and exhibit meniscus isotherms. Attributing to
the combined effects of advection-dominated heat transfer and velocity fields of jetting
dynamics, the overall temperature distributions obtain the quicker stabilized status for
coupled heat sources. Moreover, the temperature distributions in the lower-center region
exhibit the vorticial structure. In summary, we illustrate the temporal evolutions of
temperature distributions within ink chamber and offer an in-depth exploration of heat
transfer dynamics coupled with velocity fields. It could be beneficial for exploring the first
droplet dissimilarities and improving the temperature compensation.

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Keywords
Drop-on-demand; Inkjet; Heat transfer dynamics; Lattice Boltzmann model;
Temperature distributions

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