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Volume 69, Issue 3
1 June 1997
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Research Article| June 01 1997

Cooling analysis eliminates fan, reducing weight and power draw

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-4213
Print ISSN: 1748-8842
© MCB UP Limited
1997
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: An International Journal (1997) 69 (3): 265–267.
https://doi.org/10.1108/00022669710172728

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: Aerospace engineering, Computational fluid dynamics, Modelling, Optimization techniques
© MCB UP Limited
1997
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