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Introduction to Thermal Management: Keeping Devices Cool

Air Cooling, Blog, Conduction Cooling, Thermal

The latest electrification trends drive products to contain more powerful and compact electrical components, which drives additional thermal management challenges to maintain or improve performance, reliability, and lifespan. Product designers and manufacturers need...

Buoyancy: The Driving Force of Natural Convection

Air Cooling, 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 convection air cooling solutions, but what about natural convection? Buoyancy is the driving force of...

Thermal Convection: Natural versus Forced Convection

Air Cooling, Blog

Thermal Convection: A Pillar of Heat Transfer In a majority of thermal management solutions, we use thermal convection as a means to remove heat away from our sensitive components and devices. In the rare case we don’t use convection, it’s because we have...