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- NEF1204 Introduction to Engineering Design
- Design Challenge: Heat Sink Design
You will design and evaluate a heat sink with the purpose of enhancing the convective cooling a hot plate. Evaluation of the cooling performance will be done by a thermal imaging camera and a computer.
Specific requirements
The heat sink must be designed and made by using the provided material.
Sustainable design
A high rate of cooling measured over a time frame of 5 minutes with the minimal use of the material will win the challenge.
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Everyday Heat Transfer ProblemsKey terms relevant to the challenge
| heat sinks |
heat transfer process |
| heat sink design | cooling |
| thermal profile | cooling performance |
| thermal design | thermal measurement |
| heat conduction | thermal analysis |
| heat exchangers | thermal imaging |
Databases are collections of articles that are published on a regular basis in journals covering a specific subject areas.These full-text databases would be the most useful for your challenge. Use combinations of the Key Terms listed on this page to search for more article resources.
For a more complex database search you could use a citation database. This lists titles, authors and abstracts. There is no full-text within this database but there are links provided to search for full-text.
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