ME677
ME677 [Thermal Management of Electronics] - 2nd Semester 2023-24
Course Outline [PDF File]
Course content: Introduction to microelectronic devices, Historical development, Moore’s law, Heat flux dissipation in electronic devices, Temperature dependent failures, Reliability aspects. Review of principles of conduction, convection and radiation, Thermal resistance network, Governing fluid dynamic and energy equations, physical significance and length scales, Low Reynolds number flows, Diffusion limit, Principles of micromixing, Microchannel heat sinks, fans, air vs water cooling, Flow distribution, Jet impingement cooling, Micro pin-fin heat sinks, Confined vortex shedding, Phase change cooling: Heat pipes, Phase change materials, Flow boiling, Thin Film evaporation, Hotspots in microelectronics, Active approaches for targeted thermal management, Passive targeted cooling of hotspots in microelectronics, Thermal management of 3D integrated chipstacks, Energy consumption in datacenters, performance metrics, Reuse of waste heat, Thermal management of batteries and electrochemical systems.
Useful books:
L.-T. Yeh, Thermal Management of Microelectronic Equipment, 2nd ed., ASME Press New York, 2016.
Younes Shabany, Heat Transfer: Thermal Management of Electronics, CRC Press Inc, Boca Raton, USA, 2010.
John Newman, and Karen E. Thomas-Alyea, Electrochemical Systems, 3rd ed., Wiley-Interscience, New Jersey, USA, 2004.
Yunus A. Cengel, and Afshin J. Ghajar, Heat and Mass Transfer, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, India, 2011.
Frank P. Incropera, and David P. Dewitt, Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 7th ed., Wiley India Private Limited, India, 2012.
J. P. Holman, Heat Transfer, 10th ed., McGraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering, McGraw-Hill, India, 2010.
F. M. White, Fluid Mechanics, 7th ed., McGraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering, McGraw-Hill, India, 2011.
Bahman Zohuri, Heat Pipe Design and Technology, 2nd ed., Springer, Switzerland, 2011.
Amir Faghri, Heat Pipe Science and Technology, 2nd ed. Global Digital Press, New York, 2016.
H. Julian Goldsmid, Introduction to Thermoelectricity, 2nd ed., Springer, Berlin, 2010.
Gregory L. Plett, Battery Management Systems, Volume I: Battery Modeling, Artech House, Norwood, MA, USA, 2015.
John Newman, Karen E. Thomas-Alyea, Electrochemical Systems, 3rd ed., John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey, USA, 2004.
Useful links:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Thermal management of batteries (electrochemical conversion)
Presentation slides titled 'Thermal Management of Electronics' by Dr. Justin A. Weibel. (Link)
Open Source Softwares:
SCILAB {Scilab is a free and open source software for engineers & scientists}
PYTHON {Python is a free and open source programming language}
Link for downloading PYTHON (https://www.python.org)
FOSSEE (Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education) The FOSSEE project is part of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India, and is located at IIT Bombay campus. (Link: https://fossee.in/)
ANSYS (Engineering Simulation Software):
Some useful tutorials to get started
ANSYS Fluent Tutorial | Laminar Pipe Flow Problem | CFD Beginners Tutorial {Link to YouTube video}
ANSYS Fluent Tutorial | 2D Laminar Pipe Flow with Heat Transfer | CFD Tutorial {Link to YouTube video}
Steady State Thermal Ansys - Conduction | Tutorial - 01 {Link to YouTube video}
ANSYS Fluent CFD Tutorial - Flow Over a Cylinder - Von Karman Animation {Link to YouTube video}
Some useful Ansys files (the following *.rar files can be unzipped to obtain the Ansys Workbench *.wbpj file):
A simple axisymmetric laminar flow in a pipe (File)
A simple 2D planar laminar flow in an expanding pipe (File)
A simple 2D planar laminar flow in a contracting pipe (File)
A simple 2D planar laminar flow in a contracting-expanding pipe (File)
A 2D planar laminar flow along with convective heating (File)