Expertise: Thermal Design & Cooling

Engineers have access to a lot of tools to move, spread, and dissipate heat:

• Thermal Interface Materials connect a hot component like a CPU to a heat-transfer system.  The TIM might be an epoxy, a grease, or a tape.  Compression of the TIM is critical, and relies on careful Tolerance Analysis.
• Heat Pipes and Heat Spreaders transfer heat to a different location.
• Heat Exchangers or Heat Sinks provide a mechanism to carry heat away with air or liquid.
• Fans and baffles provide the necessary airflow.
• Computational Fluid Dynamics allows us to simulate the interaction of all these tools and components, providing a virtual test of the thermal design.