Thermatrons Must Leave

Thermatrons Must Leave

Talk to a mathematician about thermodynamics and heat transfer and before long they’ll be showing you lots of weird symbols…

At the Speed of Heat

At the Speed of Heat

Many analogies exist relating heat flow to fluid flow. Oops, there’s one. A good electronics thermal design is one that…

A Load of HVAC TLAs

A Load of HVAC TLAs

As humans we’ve lived in ‘built environments’ for a very long time.  From the cave to the penthouse suite, the…

How-to: Invert your thermal model to good effect

How-to: Invert your thermal model to good effect

Thought I’d follow the previous post on this subject up with a slightly more detailed description of exactly how to…

Clogged cooling fins, a cautionary tale

Clogged cooling fins, a cautionary tale

Here’s an interesting little article about the consequences of clogged cooling (heatsink) fins. A heatsink (area extender) is fine if…

Invert your thermal model to good effect

Invert your thermal model to good effect

Electronic thermal simulations are most commonly formed by specifying a power dissipation within a package and using numerical solution techniques…

“I work with computers”

“I work with computers”

Picture the scene, a big family get together, being cornered by the latest wife of your outward going (and rather…

Fractals: Gods Artwork, Part II

Fractals: Gods Artwork, Part II

A fractal set; a set of numbers, or points, that when iterated through even the simplest of  non-linear equations do…

Fractals: Gods Artwork, Part I

Fractals: Gods Artwork, Part I

I thought I’d go a little ‘off piste’ and rabbit on about fractals for a while. In the end we’ll…