Buoyancy: The Driving Force of Natural Convection Back to Boyd Blog In thermal management, we describe our air cooled devices as using either natural convection or forced convection. Fans and blowers are the mechanisms behind forced convectio...
Everyday Thermals: Boiling Pot of Water Back to Boyd Blog Thermals affect us everyday, even without us knowing. Heat transfer is just a form of energy transfer. We're busy people and move energy around all the time. When you start thinking th...
Device Datasheets: Power Dissipation and How to Calculate Max Case Temperature Back to Boyd Blog Gathering Critical Data for use in Aavid Genie Finding how much heat your electronic device dissipates and how to calculate max case temperatu...
Folded Fin Heat Sinks: Putting All of Those Origami Skills to Work! Back to Boyd Blog Most of the time when we hear folding, and not folded fin heat sinks. We first think of folding typical daily things like laundry or paper. Most of us don't...
Bond, Thermal Bond: An Overview on Bonded Fin Heat Sinks Back to Boyd Blog Bonded Fin Heat Sink: What is it and how does it compare to other heat sinks? Aavid Genie has a bonded fin heat sink as one of the options available to you in the T...