Natural convection heat transfer from inclined plate-fin heat sinks

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 56, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 574-593

  Tari, Ilker ^a   Mehrtash, Mehdi ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Electronics cooling; Inclined heat sink; Natural convection; Plate fin array; Vertical heat sink

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; DIMENSIONLESS CORRELATION; ELECTRONIC DEVICE COOLING; ELECTRONICS COOLING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FIN CHANNELS; FINITE VOLUME; FLAT PLATE; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; GRAVITATIONAL ACCELERATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; INCLINATION ANGLES; PARALLEL ARRANGEMENT; PLATE FINS; PLATE-FIN HEAT SINK; RADIATION HEAT; RECTANGULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; SIMULATION APPROACH; STEADY-STATE NATURAL CONVECTION; VERTICAL PLATE;

ALUMINUM; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); NATURAL CONVECTION; SPECIFIC HEAT;

ELECTRONIC COOLING;

EID: 84867811992     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2012.08.050     Document Type: Article

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