Heatsink 101: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know Web Seminar

Overview As the power density of electronics devices go up, so does the need for chip and system thermal management. One way to cool the components down is to add a heat sink. Heat sinks uses conduction, convection and sometimes radiation to enhance the heat transfer from a hot surface to a cooler fluid. Many factors such as cost, manufacturability and weight need to be considered when choosing a heat sink. How the heat sink gets attached to the component is also critical. During this 45 minute presentation, we will focus on how heat sinks work and how to design a heat sink while considering all the critical factors such as size, airflow, cost and attachment methods. We will also investigate how, using simulation, the heat sink design could be optimised and validated in the application environment. Engineers involved in board and chassis design would find this session very educational. What You Will Learn • How to design a heat sink for a specific electronics cooling application • To visualise the airflow around the heat sink and identify potential bypass areas • Estimate heat sink thermal resistance • Use Response Surface Optimisation to come up with the best heat sink design for the considered environment To register click here. About the Presenter Alexandra Francois-Saint-Cyr is the Applications Engineering Manager for North America at Mentor Graphics, Mechanical Analysis Division (Previously Flomerics). For the past 8 years, she has been working on promoting the use of the Mentor Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software by conducting training classes, seminars and software demonstrations. After graduating from ESSTIN, France's State Graduate School of Engineering back in 1997, Alex studied to improve passenger comfort in the trains at Alstom Transport by using CFD software FloVENT. In 1999, she moved to the United States where she received her MSME from the University of Central Florida. There she worked on a meso-scale centrifugal compressor project, her research leading to the 'Best Technical Paper' award in the Advanced Energy Systems Division at the International ASME show in 2000.