FORCED CONVECTIVE AIR COOLING FROM ELECTRONIC-COMPONENT ARRAYS IN A PARALLEL-PLATE CHANNEL

This paper discusses air forced convection heat transfer from inline p rotruding elements arranged in eight rows. The streamwise and spanwise spacings between elements were varied using a splitter plate that can be positioned at three different modular configurations. A set of emp irical formulas was obtained to correlate the experimental data for ai r cooling systems design, Arrays of components with one odd-sized modu le have also been tested, Experimental results show that blocks near t he entrance and behind the odd-size module have improved performance c ompared to uniform arrangements, Accordingly, temperature sensitive co mponents are suggested to be placed in these locations.