Thermal analysis of LED lighting system with different fin heat sinks

This paper designs a 3×3 light emitting diode(LED) array with a total power of 9 W,presents a thermal analysis of plate fin,in-line and staggered pin fin heat sinks for a high power LED lighting system,and develops a 3D one-fourth finite element(FE) model to predict the system temperature distribution.Three kinds of heat sinks are compared under the same conditions.It is found that LED chip junction temperature is 48.978℃when the fins of heat sink are aligned alternately.