Quick, Easy, and Mostly Right Heatsink Performance Estimate
I really enjoyed both of the Web Seminars on heat sinks; Heatsink 101 presented by Alexandra Francois-Saint-Cyr and Heatsink 201 presented by Dr. John Parry. I was especially interested in a couple of equations presented in Heatsink 101 that estimated h (convective heat transfer coefficient) and minimum fin spacing. The equations were derived from a Flat Plate in Parallel Flow theory but were simplified … Read More
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clark
I’ve often called mechanical engineers magicians because whenever I listen to them speak about what they do the only thing that comes to mind is magic. Much like the first time I looked at Engineering Fluid Dynamics (EFD). EFD is a different breed of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. EFD shares the same …