A model for uniform parallel flow over the surface of a rectangular source of heat on a conducting plate is used to demonstrate the use of analytic Green’s functions to formulate the conjugate problem. The Green’s functions are solutions to the temperature field that arises from a point source of heat on the surface. They provide a relationship between the local heat flux and surface temperature on the plate, effectively serving the same role as the heat transfer coefficient. By coupling the pointwise Green’s function to a finite element discretization of the thin plate, the surface temperature and convective heat flux distributions on the heat source and its substrate are found by a non-iterative procedure. A parametric study shows that at high Peclet numbers, the heat transfer from the source approaches the behavior of an infinite two-dimensional source of heat. The average Nusselt numbers for rectangular sources of different aspect ratios are found to be insensitive to source aspect ratio at high Peclet numbers. Board conduction reduces the average Nusselt numbers over the source when it is defined in terms of the freestream temperature. New correlations for the source Nusselt number as a function of flow Peclet number and board conductivity are presented.

Issue Section:
Technical Papers
Keywords:
cooling, packaging, printed circuit layout, forced convection, Green's function methods, temperature distribution, finite element analysis, Cooling Electronics, Forced Convection, Greens Functions
Topics:
Cooling, Electrical conductivity, Electronic components, Flow (Dynamics), Forced convection, Heat, Heat conduction, Heat transfer, Temperature, Thermal conductivity, Finite element analysis, Fluids, Heat flux
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