Abstract: The forced cooled electronic chassis is revisited and, because of recent developments, changes which amend the design procedure are proposed. These considerations involve the thickness of the ...

Abstract: The extended surface literature from 1922 to 1987 is reviewed. The review begins with the classic NACA report of Harper and Brown published in 1922 and concludes with the works of Marto, ...

Abstract: This paper attempts to provide a comprehensive, coherent, and methodical review of the existing literature on the transient performance of extended surfaces (fins). With the exception of very ...

Abstract: The spine (fin) efficiency is abandoned and the input admittance, defined as the ratio of the heat dissipated by the spine to the temperature excess at the spine base, is established as the ...

Abstract: The effort described herein extends the use of least-material single rectangular plate-fin analysis to multiple fin arrays, using a composite Nusselt number correlation. The optimally spaced ...