Please contact us for all your heat sink design needs. We provide quick turn-around (2 day) rapid heat sink design consulting service using Qfin4 advanced thermal analysis and design software package.

We utilize Qfin4 to build a virtual prototype of your heat sink or to select heat sink for your operating conditions and to subsequently optimize it using design optimization methods using PC computers.

We will typically optimize heat sink dimensions, including fins and base, number of fins, type of fins, gap between the fins, heat sink mass.

As a result we can rapidly obtain designs that have best thermal resistance and will yield best thermal performance.

Example presentations demonstrating considerable heat sink performance improvement and very impressive reduction in thermal junction temperature:

» Design and Optimization of Heat Sink for Quad Core Intel Processor using Qfin (130 W)
Vladimir Kudriavtsev

» Generic Example of Heat Sink Design and Optimization for the Solar Cell Application using Qfin

»Radiator Heat Sink Analysis for Heat Removal in High Performance Liquid Cooling Systems
Vladimir Kudriavtsev

Comprehensive Heat Sink Analysis, Design and Optimization using IcePak (Fluent) advanced thermal modeling software

Icepak software allows to build very detailed model of air flow through the heat sink, and to account in a great detail for the board and cabinet effects on the air flow direction, local approach velocity, etc. Resulting models take more time to build and verify, and they take considerably more time to run.

Our customer will benefit from detailed local and global air flow and temperature information.

Typically this service may take from several days to a week, depending on the number of design iteration (optimization) or trial steps.

Experimental Heat Sink Testing and Verification Service

We utilize our state-of the art wind tunnel to conduct system impedance and CFM tests for heat sinks, test enclosures with heat sinks.

Heat release from the heat source (computer chip) is simulated using AC/DC electric heaters that are part of the overall installation.

Thermocouples and IR camera are utilized to measure heat sink and heater temperatures at various locations, including at the junction contact.

Typical experimental project will take from several days to several weeks, depending on its complexity and number of measurements and number of variables of interest.

Heat Sink Design Contact Information:
Applied Thermal
3255 Kifer Road
Santa Clara, CA 95051
Tel: 1-408-522-8730
Ext. 209