Author Archive for Christian L. Belady, P.E.

In the data center, power and cooling costs more than the it equipment it supports

February 1st, 2007

Historically, the cost of energy and the cost of the data center power and cooling infrastructure have not been on the radar for most Chief Financial Officers (CFO) and Chief Information Officers (CIO) and have…read more

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Effective Thermal Design for Electronic Systems

May 1st, 2003

In the past, the thermal designer’s role was seen as one of predicting temperatures and ensuring that reliability limits are met for products. However, the role of an effective thermal designer is much more than…read more

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Improving productivity in electronic packaging with flow network modeling (fnm)

January 1st, 1999

 As the complexity and power density of electronics systems increase, so too does the demand for tools to improve both product quality and designer productivity. This is especially true for thermal designers who use Computational…read more

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Standardizing heat sink characterization for forced convection

September 1st, 1997

Figure 1. Wind tunnel configuration Introduction While there has been a flurry of activity inliterature addressing the behavior of heat sinks in computer electronics,the reusability of the data presented in these papers has been somewhatlimited…read more

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