Fig. 1: Levels in a computer environment. Introduction Increasing demands for higher performance in microprocessors have a direct effect on chip power and heat generation. Increased function and miniaturization of the packages result in thermal challenges that require a thorough understanding of the system's thermal performance under all possible field conditions. Regardless … [Read more...]
Calculating Spreading Resistance in Heat Sinks
Accident? Consider the scenario where a designer wishes to incorporate a newly developed device into a system and soon learns that a heat sink is needed to cool the device. The designer finds a rather large heat sink in a catalog which marginally satisfies the required thermal criteria. Due to other considerations, such as fan noise and cost constraints, an attempt to use a … [Read more...]
Convection and radiation
In last issue's calculation corner,a simple 1-dimensional conduction calculation was described. This time, we look at the other two basic heat transfer processes, namely convection and radiation. In actual applications with multiple heat sources with complicated geometries, the effect of each of these mechanisms on the heat transfer process can be quite difficult to calculate. … [Read more...]
Experimental evaluation of the local convective heat transfer from configurations of wall-mounted cubes in a channel flow
Figure 1: Sketches of the measurement cube. Introduction Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes are frequently used as design tools to predict the thermal processes in electronic circuitry. CFD codes can easily cope with a high level of complexity (component, board and system levels) which makes them attractive to use. However, the thermal and kinematic complexity of the … [Read more...]
Measuring fluid velocity in electronic enclosures
Thermal analysis and characterization of electronic systems requires a knowledge of fluid velocity. In pursuit of this information, we often resort to measurement or calculation. The issue of measurement becomes a challenge since we are dealing with rather complex flows that tend to be highly nonisothermal. Therefore, it is our intention in this article to highlight the need … [Read more...]
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