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Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems -Proceedings of the Intersociety Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 9-14

  Moffat, Robert J ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Air cooling; CFD; Cooling design; hadiabatic; Heat transfer; Tadiabatic

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLANTS; HEAT TRANSFER; MICROELECTRONICS; PRESSURE DROP; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS;

COOLING;

EID: 0036459711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

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2. Moffat, R.J., Arvizu, D.E., and Ortega, A. "Cooling Electronic Components: Forced Convection Experiments with all Air-cooled Array" Heat Transfer in Electronic Equipment 1985, ASME HTD - Vol. 48, pp 17-28.
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4. Anderson, A.M. and Moffat, R.J. "The Adiabatic Heat Transfer Coefficient and the Superposition Kernel Function: Part II - Modeling Flatpack Data as a Function of Channel Turbulence," ASME Jn. Electronics Packaging, Vol. 114, No. 1, pp 22-28, March 1992.
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6. Vinkenvleugel, Luc.T. "Heat Transfer Coefficients in Flotherm" Flotherm Users Conference, September, 1994. Transmitted to the present author as a personal communication from C. Lasance, Dec. 1994.
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8. Gauche, P. "Using FLOTHERM and the Command Center to Exploit the Principle of Superposition" Personal communication from P. Gauche, e-mail address: paul@flomerics.com June 2001. Publication venue unknown.