NUMERICAL STUDY ON SOME IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PASSIVE COOLING SYSTEM OF A RADIO BASE STATION BASE ON MULTISCALE THERMAL MODELING METHODOLOGY-PART I: CONFIRMATION OF SIMPLIFIED MODELS

摘要

Passive cooling schemes, such as natural convection, are the most reliable heat dissipation apprpaches for electronic equipment. Some times, the highest temperature of the printed circuit board (PCB), rather than the highest of chips, is very much concern because of some technological reasons. In order to reduce the maximum PCB temperature, this article analyze the PCB temperature distribution by multiscale simulation. A top-to-down approach is adopted in order to reveal the details of temperature distribution of some interested local position. In the top-to-down approach, the system level simulation by a not-too-fine grid system is the key to obtain a reliable solution. In order to reach such a goal each component of the PCB should be reasonably simplified. The thermal analysis method is proposed to simplify the components, and the implementation details are provided for three types of components. In the companion article, the settlement of boundary conditions from the data of system level simulation and several improvements in heat transfer by numerical simulation will be presented.