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Vent sizing case study

Outside-in thermal design

Liquid Cooling "Wish List"

Radial fin analysis for circuit boards

Thermal Networks: Tried and True, and FAST!... and an example

Ways to get bad thermocouple readings -- and not know it

Radiative heat transfer coefficient

Monte Carlo simulation

Thermal radiation

Acoustics and thermal design

Thermal engineer and the real product design

    Air density as function of altitude and temperature

    Acoustics and the thermal engineer I and II

    Product Safety and the thermal engineer

    EMC and the thermal engineer

    Precision, Accuracy, and their effect on Design Decisions

    Substituting One Fan for Another

    Minimizing Fan Power for Fin Arrays

Analyzing plate-fin heat sink performance

    Forced convection: parallel flow

      pressure drop

        laminar flow

        turbulent flow

        parallel flow paths

      heat transfer

    Forced convection: impinging flow

      and an example

    Natural convection

      optimum fin spacing

      radiative heat transfer coefficient

    Thermal spreading resistance

    Heat sink performance analysis recipe

    “Optimization”

      and an example

 

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 Heat Sinks in Impinging Flow gives pressure drop and heat transfer correlations

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"Optimum" heat sink fins ...

... and an Example