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John G. Brisson.
Allison, Jonathan Michael
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
2010-10-29T13:48:54Z
2010-10-29T13:48:54Z
2010
2010
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59551
668107586
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2010.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-114).
The increasing heat output of modern electronics requires concomitant advances in heat sinking technology: reductions in thermal resistance and required pumping power are necessary. This research covers the development of a novel type of air-cooled heat sink, in particular the air flow through such a heat sink. The research is carried out through theory, computation, and experiment. A nondimensionalization is carried out to determine scaling laws for such heat sinks. Correlations are provided for the prediction of performance of similar heat sinks. Using these scaling laws a heat sink with an air flow volume of 35 cm³ is described with a convection thermal resistance of 0.43 KW-1 for a pumping power of 0.72 W.
by Jonathan Michael Allison.
S.M.
114 p.
eng
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Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Air flow in a high aspect ratio heat sink
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