Investigation of a multiple impeller design for a high performance air-cooled heat sink

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)

Volumn 7, Issue PARTS A AND B, 2010, Pages 313-320

  Staats, Wayne L ^a   Peters, Teresa B ^a   Allison, Jon M ^a   McCarthy, Matthew ^a   Wang, Evelyn N ^a   Brisson, John G ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow circuit; Heat exchanger; Heat pipe; Hydraulic circuit; Multilayer blower

Indexed keywords

AIR; BLOWERS; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; COOLING SYSTEMS; HEAT PIPES; HEAT SINKS; IMPELLERS; MICROCHANNELS; MULTILAYERS;

AIR FLOW; AIR-COOLED HEAT SINKS; CIRCUIT MODELING; FLOW CIRCUITS; HYDRAULIC CIRCUITS; IMPELLER DESIGN; IMPELLER SYSTEM; MULTILAYER BLOWER; MULTIPLE IMPELLERS; PERFORMANCE;

TIMING CIRCUITS;

EID: 84867160976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2010-40703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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