A correlation for natural convection heat transfer from inclined plate-finned heat sinks

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 1067-1075

  Mehrtash, Mehdi ^a   Tari, Ilker ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS CODES; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; ELECTRONICS COOLING; FINITE VOLUME; GRAVITATIONAL ACCELERATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; INCLINATION ANGLES; MODEL PARAMETERS; PARALLEL ARRANGEMENT; PLATE FINS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; RECTANGULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; SCALE ANALYSIS; STEADY-STATE NATURAL CONVECTION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRONIC COOLING; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); OPTICAL CORRELATION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 84870160471     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2012.10.043     Document Type: Article

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