Thermal Design of Electronic Equipment / Edition 1

by Ralph Remsburg

Overview

In a field where change and growth is inevitable, new electronic packaging problems continually arise. Smaller, more powerful devices are prone to overheating, causing intermittent system failures, corrupted signals, lower MTBF, and outright system failure. Since convection cooling is the heat transfer path most engineers take to deal with thermal problems, it is appropriate to gain as much understanding about the underlying mechanisms of fluid motion as possible.
Thermal Design of Electronic Equipment is the only book that specifically targets the formulas used by electronic packaging and thermal engineers. It presents heat transfer equations dealing with polyalphaolephin (PAO), silicone oils, perfluorocarbons, and silicate ester-based liquids. Instead of relying on theoretical expressions and text explanations, the author presents empirical formulas and practical techniques that allow you to quickly solve nearly any thermal engineering problem in electronic packaging.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780849300820
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/27/2000
Series:	Electronics Handbook Series , #10
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ralph Remsburg

Table of Contents

Preface. Nomenclature and Symbology. Unit Conversion Factors. Introduction to Formulas for Thermal Design of Electronic Equipment. Formulas for Conduction Heat Transfer in Electronic Equipment. Formulas for Fluid Dynamics for Electronic Equipment. Convection Heat Transfer in Electronic Equipment. Radiation Heat Transfer in Electronic Equipment. Heat Transfer with Phase Change. Combined Modes of Heat Transfer for Electronic Equipment. Appendix.

Editorial Reviews

Provides formulas needed by electronic packaging engineers to solve thermal engineering problems and prevent overheating in electronic equipment. Chapters cover formulas for conductive heat transfer, fluid dynamics, convection heat transfer, radiation heat transfer, and heat transfer with phase change. The book approaches convective heat transfer in electronics as a fluids problem, rather than a series of differential equations, and requires only a knowledge of algebra. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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