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1) A 15cm x 20cm circuit board needs to be cooled to below 85C using aluminum fins. 2) Each 4cm fin has a 2mm x 2mm cross section and the ambient temperature is 25C. 3) Convection from the fins is 20 W/m2K. 3) Design a finned surface with the appropriate number of fins and an overall effectiveness of 3 to keep the circuit board below 85C.

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Tutorial Problems and Solutions

1) A 15cm x 20cm circuit board needs to be cooled to below 85C using aluminum fins. 2) Each 4cm fin has a 2mm x 2mm cross section and the ambient temperature is 25C. 3) Convection from the fins is 20 W/m2K. 3) Design a finned surface with the appropriate number of fins and an overall effectiveness of 3 to keep the circuit board below 85C.

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A 15-cm × 20-cm integrated circuit board is to be cooled by attaching 4-cm-long aluminum (k = 237

W/m⋅K) fins on one side of it. Each fin has a 2-mm × 2-mm square cross section. The surrounding
ambient temperature is 25°C and the convection heat transfer coefficient on each fin surface is 20
W/m2 ⋅K. To prevent the circuit board from overheating, the upper surface of the circuit board needs
to be at 85°C or cooler. Design a finned surface having the appropriate number of fins, with an overall
effectiveness of 3 that can keep the circuit board surface from overheating.
Consider a large plane wall of thickness L = 0.3 m, thermal conductivity k = 2.5 W/m⋅K, and surface area A = 12
m2 . The left side of the wall at x = 0 is subjected to a net heat flux of q0 = 700 W/m2 , while the temperature
at that surface is measured to be T1 = 80°C. Assuming constant thermal conductivity and no heat generation in
the wall, (a) express the differential equation and the boundary conditions for steady one-dimensional heat
conduction through the wall, (b) obtain a relation for the variation of temperature in the wall by solving the
differential equation, and (c) evaluate the temperature of the right surface of the wall at x = L.

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