Active cooling device: a flexible experimental unit to test active cooling control strategies

We present an experimental unit that realizes the "multi-input, multi-output manifold" thermal management technology proposed by Lamarre & Raymond (2023). The proposed setup can be used for experiments aiming to control spatio-temporal temperature distribution. Temperature control is done by impinging coolant fluid jets using a manifold of channels targeted to the surface. The direction of the fluid is controlled by shifting the role of channels between inputs, outputs, or closing them. Files associated with this work include Computer-Aided Design (CAD) STEP files, Gerber files to manufacture a Printed Circuit Board (PCB), and an associated repository with an Application, with a user-friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI), written in Python. Extending the setup and its application is accessible through the files provided in the open repository.