Fluid line connectors are essential to liquid cooling loops. Engineers must consider selection, installation, and maintenance of a system’s fluid connections to prevent leaks and ensure system longevity. Fluid Coupling and Connector Selection Choosing the Right...
When trying to understand how a compressor based cooling system works, you must keep three physical phenomena in mind: Fundamental Physical Principles When a gas is compressed its temperature increases. Conversely, when it is expanded its temperature decreases. This...
Heat Pipes and Heat Exchangers What is a heat pipe? A heat pipe is a heat transfer device with an extremely high effective thermal conductivity. Heat pipes are evacuated vessels, typically circular in cross section, which are back-filled with a small quantity of...
The Benefits of Components & Systems Designers sometimes oversize components in order to build in a margin of safety. However, this safety factor can add quite a bit to the cost of operating your system. What may be less obvious, perhaps, is how this safety factor...
Gathering Critical Device Data Finding how much heat your electronic device dissipates and how to calculate maximum case temperature can be difficult if you’re not sure what you’re looking for. But determining the amount of heat a device dissipates is one...
Heat Spreading Heat spreaders offer cost-effective, reliable high thermal conductivity and efficacy with almost no moving parts. A heat spreader is an effective solution for dealing with heat sources that have a high heat-flux density (high heat flow per unit area)...
