Numerical investigation on cooling of small form factor computer cases

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Orhan, Ömer Emre

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In this study, cooling of small form factor computer is numerically investigated. The numerical model is analyzed using a commercial computational fluid dynamics software Icepak™ . The effects of grid selection, discretization schemes and turbulence models are discussed and presented. In addition, physical phenomena like recirculation and relaminarization are addressed briefly. For a comparison with the computational fluid dynamics results, an experiment is conducted and some temperature measurements are obtained from critical locations inside the chassis.The computational results were found to be in good agreement with the experimental ones.

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Mechanical Engineering.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608160/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/16702

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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Ö. E. Orhan, “Numerical investigation on cooling of small form factor computer cases,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2007.