Purdue University researchers have claimed they have a got a breakthrough that could change the entire face of the cooling designs currently done by engineers for the electronics ranging from cars to computers. Suresh Garimella, the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, and doctoral student Tannaz Harirchia, have developed and tested new mathematical formulas concerning the properties of boiling liquids in microchannels. As for those who don’t know what microchannels are which includes me too, microchannels are nothing but tiny channels through which fluid is directed in some types of high-power electronic cooling systems. These researchers have been on this for quite some time now. The details of this breakthrough will be presented on October 8 in Belgium at Therminic 2009 which is an annual conference on thermal research and technology for microelectronics. This research has been funded by Indiana’s 21st Century Research and Technology Fund and Purdue based National Science Foundation Cooling Technologies Research Center.

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