• air -- the ultimate heat sink
• five minutes of heat transfer theory
• what is air? the perfect insulator and ideal heat transfer fluid at the same time?
  starting in the middle: understanding your cooling requirements.
• selecting the right air cooling scheme with hand calculations:
  • the sealed box
  • natural convection
    

afternoon session

• selecting the right air cooling scheme with hand calculations:
  • forced convection (the secrets of fans)
  • radiation – the other air cooling
  • assisted cooling – heat exchangers and air conditioning
• no doghouses! – integrating the cooling into the system
• computational fluid dynamics – when you need to estimate your cooling to 12 significant digits
• what happens at higher altitude? nobody seems to know for sure.
• testing and my favorite test lab mistakes
• the limits of air cooling – when to give up and call in the plumbers

learn from the guy who spent 25 years engineering cooling solutions in the power, telecom, and military electronics industries, and then had the temerity to write about it in hot air rises and heat sinks: everything you know about cooling electronics is wrong, and more hot air, tony kordyban.

tony has condensed over 25 years of practical experience into a one-day course

tony kordyban has been an engineer in the field of electronics cooling for different telecom and power supply companies for the last twenty-two years. maybe that doesn't make him an expert in heat transfer theory, but it has certainly gained him a lot of experience in the ways not to cool electronics. he does have some book-learnin', with a bs in mechanical engineering from the university of detroit and a masters in mechanical engineering from stanford. in those twenty-odd years tony has come to the conclusion that a lot of the common practices of electronics cooling are full of baloney. he has run into so much nonsense in the field that he has found it easier to just assume "everything you know is wrong" (from the comedy album by firesign theatre), and to question everything against the basic principles of heat transfer theory. tony has been collecting case studies of the wrong way to cool electronics, using them to educate the cooling masses, applying humor as the sugar to help the medicine go down. these have been published recently by the asme press in a book called, "hot air rises and heat sinks: everything you know about cooling electronics is wrong." it is available direct from asme press at 1-800-843-2763 or at their web site at http://www.asme.org/pubs/asmepress order number 800741.

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