Quickly estimate an electronic system's cooling requirements

摘要

During normal operation, an electronic system generates wasted heat that can cause malfunctions and damage components unless you remove it. In an ideal world, you would have the time and resources to perform a rigorous evaluation of an electronic system's cooling requirements early in the design phase and thus avoid the cooling errors others have made in the past (Reference 1). However, circumstances often demand a diagnostic evaluation of a system's cooling methods or a rapid estimate of a proposed system's cooling requirements. For these purposes, you don't need an advanced degree in computational fluid dynamics; this Design Idea outlines a method that may be all that's necessary.