Cooling analysis eliminates fan, reducing weight and power draw
Thomas Nickell
(Principal Mechanical Engineer, Lockheed Martin WS (Wideband Systems), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
307
Abstract
Describes how engineers from Lockheed Martin, USA, reduced the weight and power draw of an oscillator in an aircraft electrical assembly by using computational fluid dynamics to optimize radiative and natural convective cooling, thereby eliminating the need for a fan within the assembly.
Keywords
Citation
Nickell, T. (1997), "Cooling analysis eliminates fan, reducing weight and power draw", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 69 No. 3, pp. 265-267. https://doi.org/10.1108/00022669710172728
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1997, MCB UP Limited