Electronics Cooling, From Air to Liquid Cooling

Design engineers are dealing with more heat problems than ever before and the task of mitigating those thermal issues within cost and time constraints have never been more challenging. Please join Dr. Kaveh Azar, a global electronics cooling expert and president and CEO of Advanced Thermal solutions, inc., in a full day thermal management presentation that will provide participants with the analytical and measurement tools for analysis, design and testing of cooling systems for electronics, whether air or liquid.

Objectives:

To review basic calculations for thermal design with attendees
To provide practical techniques for thermal measurement
To review cooling technologies currently available on the market

Who Should Attend?

This technical course is specifically tailored for engineers, designers and program managers responsible for, or involved in, electronics cooling. Whether you are an electrical, mechanical, photonics or network server engineer or DSP designer, this course will provide you with practical, focused, technical information enabling you to identify optimal solutions for electronic cooling. This course is also suited to project managers, chief technical officers or those involved in technical operations at all levels who want to gain insight into the thermal design issues essential for the success their products in the marketplace. Each attendee will also receive a complete course content package to use as reference for future electronics cooling challenges.

Agenda:

Part A. Basic Calculations for Thermal Design

A series of first order calculations will be presented to determine standard parameters required for thermal design. Calculations to be reviewed include:

Temperature rise in a channel made of PCBs
Board temperature
Device junction and case temperature
Sizing the flow required for adequate cooling
Sizing the fan to deliver the required air flow rate
Pressure drop in a PCB channel
Effect of altitude and humidity
Designing the optimum heat sink
Sizing of the heat pipe
Thermoelectric devices for cooling of electronics
Cold-plate technology— design fundamentals and technology review

Part B. Practical Techniques in Thermal Measurement

During this section of the course common tools and techniques used for thermal measurement will be reviewed including:

Temperature measurement- from fluid to die
Fluid velocity measurement
Pressure drop measurement
Heat flux measurement

Part C. Review of Market Available Cooling Technologies

The presentation will conclude with a review of common cooling technologies currently
available including:

Air cooling technologies
Liquid cooling options
Refrigeration cooling of high power electronics
Recent cooling options for the high power devices

About the Presenter:

Kaveh Azar, Ph. D.
President & CEO
Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc.

Norwood , MA , USA

Kaveh Azar, Ph.D., is the president, CEO and founder of Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc. (ATS), a leading engineering and manufacturing company focused on the thermal management of electronics.

Prior to ATS, Dr. Azar was the founder and manager of Lucent Technologies' Thermal Management Center , responsible for developing the next generation of cooling systems. In addition, Dr. Azar authored Lucent's thermal roadmap and served as the corporate thermal consultant. While at Lucent, he developed a state-of-the-art thermal/fluids laboratory for simulation of components, boards and systems.

Since 1985, Dr. Azar has been an active participant in the electronics thermal community and has served as the organizer, general chair and the keynote speaker at national and international conferences sponsored by ASME, IEEE and AIAA. In addition, he has been the recipient of the IEEE SEMITHERM Significant Contributor Award in the thermal management of electronics systems.

Dr. Azar has been an invitee to national bodies such as NSF, NIST and NEMI for organizing government and industry research goals in electronics cooling. He has also been an adjunct professor at a number of universities, including Northeastern University , and lectures worldwide in analytical and experimental methods in electronics cooling.

He holds more than 36 national and international patents, and has published more than 75 articles, 3 book chapters and a book entitled “Thermal Measurements in Electronics Cooling”. Dr. Azar has also served as the editor in chief of Electronics Cooling Magazine, the premier resource for practitioners in the field of electronics thermal management, from the publications, founding in 1995 to 2006.