Natural convection in a bi-heater configuration of passive electronic cooling

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1516-1527

  Banerjee, Sumanta ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Achintya ^a   Sen, Swarnendu ^a   Ganguly, Ranjan ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Grashof number; MEMS devices; Natural convection; Passive cooling; Square cavity

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FLUID MECHANICS; HEAT CONVECTION; NATURAL CONVECTION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; TURBULENT FLOW;

GRASHOF NUMBER; MEMS DEVICES; PASSIVE COOLING; SQUARE CAVITY; STRENGTH RATIOS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 50949110316     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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