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Organically Grown 3D Printable Heatsinks – Part 3: Smoothing the Edges

Organically Grown 3D Printable Heatsinks – Part 3: Smoothing the Edges

The shape of the small piece of geometry that is added so as to successively ‘relieve’ the design determines the…

Organically Grown 3D Printable Heatsinks – Part 2: Trunks and Branches

Organically Grown 3D Printable Heatsinks – Part 2: Trunks and Branches

Adrian Bejan’s Constructal Law states: “For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such…

Organically Grown 3D Printable Heatsinks – Part 1: A Simple Iterative Procedure

Organically Grown 3D Printable Heatsinks – Part 1: A Simple Iterative Procedure

This is what a typical extruded fin heatsink looks like. It’s made of metal and sits on top of IC…

The Electronics Cooling Metaphorical Drinking Game – Part Deux

The Electronics Cooling Metaphorical Drinking Game – Part Deux

With Semi-Therm 31 just a week away I thought it would be a good time to expand on the (metaphorical)…

Angry Building Melts Car with Focused Sunlight Weapon

Angry Building Melts Car with Focused Sunlight Weapon

29th August, 2012. A Jaguar XJ parked in Fenchurch Street, London, suffered melted panels between 1200 and 1400, owner Martin…

Mentor Graphics at Semi-Therm 31 – ‘Dolly the Heatsink’ and much more

Mentor Graphics at Semi-Therm 31 – ‘Dolly the Heatsink’ and much more

Semi-Therm, the world’s largest dedicated electronics thermal conference, will take place between March 15-19 at the Doubletree Hotel in San…

Engineering Love

Engineering Love

It’s National Engineer’s Week in the US this week. A similar event takes place in the UK in March. I’ve…

3D Thermal Simulation of 2D Images, a Valentine’s Love Story.

3D Thermal Simulation of 2D Images, a Valentine’s Love Story.

A full 3D thermal simulation of an electronic system requires, not surprisingly, a 3D geometric representation of the proposed design….

Domestic Hot Water Heating, ‘Wat-er’ Waste of Energy. Part 4: ‘Wat-er’ Waste of Time

Domestic Hot Water Heating, ‘Wat-er’ Waste of Energy. Part 4: ‘Wat-er’ Waste of Time

Energy isn’t the only thing that is wasted when dealing with hot water supply. Time is as well. The house…