Learn · Thermal Management of Electronics
Lecture 14 of 40Week 3
Natural convection cooling
Prof. Sarthak Nag and Prof. Parmod Kumar · IIT Mandi
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- Thermal Management of Electronics, IIT Mandi (at NPTEL)
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All the lectures
- Introduction to thermal management in electronics
- Heat transfer mechanisms and conduction heat transfer
- Heat diffusion equation and thermal resistance network
- Spreading resistance and thermal interface materials
- Convective heat transfer and introduction to boundary layer
- Velocity and temperature boundary layers
- External forced convection heat transfer
- Internal forced convection heat transfer
- Natural convection heat transfer
- Radiation heat transfer
- Radiation exchange between surfaces
- Flow and temperature measurement
- Thermal specification of microelectronics packaging
- Natural convection cooling
- Enclosures design for natural cooling, orientation effects
- Forced air cooling, flow regimes and fan selection and placement
- Fan performance curves, system curves, fan selection and placement
- Fin and heat sinks, applications
- Heat sinks
- Heat sinks design parameters
- Overview and need of liquid cooling
- Fundamentals of cold plates
- Fundamentals of microchannel heat sinks
- Heat transfer in microchannels
- Numerical problems on microchannel heat transfer
- Fundamentals of boiling heat transfer
- Flow boiling in micro and macrochannels
- Direct immersion cooling
- Heat pipes
- Heat pipes- performance limits
- Heat pipes-modelling and materials selections
- Vapour chamber, loop heat pipes and pulsating heat pipes
- Thermal management of electronics using Phase change material (PCM)
- Resistance capacitance netwrork for PCM heat sinks
- Overview of jet impingement and thermoelectric cooling
- Thermal management of electric vehicles
- Thermal management of EVs (contd.) and Data centers
- Thermal management of Data centers: rack-level and chip-level cooling
- Data centers immersion cooling, Microbubble based liquid cooling & Monolithic microchannels
- Cooling trends and future directions in thermal management