Forced convection air-cooling of a commercial electronic chassis: An experimental and computational case study

IEEE Transactions on Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Part A

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 248-257

  Argento, Christopher W ^a   Joshi, Yogendra K ^b   Osterman, Michael D ^b  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics in electronics cooling; Electronics thermal management; Forced convection air cooling; System level electronic cooling; Thermal modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT CHASSIS; ELECTRONICS THERMAL MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM LEVEL ELECTRONIC COOLING; VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATES;

ELECTRONICS PACKAGING;

EID: 0030169633     PISSN: 10709886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/95.506111     Document Type: Article

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