Regenerative Heat Sinks for Cooling Airborne Electronic Equipment

Abstract

Electronic engineers for some time have been depending on the principle of regeneration, known better as 'thermal inertia,' for maintaining components of equipment packages at reliable levels during supersonic flight. Generally for certain aircraft systems, it was recognized that no cooling or an inadequate amount of refrigerated cooling air would be supplied to the electronic equipment during supersonic flight. The heat capacity of the mass of the electronic equipment had to be depended upon to absorb heat from electronic components for a given period of time. The discussion presented provides theory and mathematical equations for calculating temperatures for cooling and heating packed bed regenerators.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 29, 1969
Accession Number
AD0848782

Entities

People

  • A. R. Saltzman

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Supplies
  • Air Temperature
  • Coefficients
  • Computer Programs
  • Electronic Components
  • Electronic Equipment
  • Flow Rate
  • Fluid Flow
  • Heat Capacity
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Sinks
  • Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Coefficients
  • Low Temperature
  • Materials
  • Packing Materials
  • Supersonic Flight

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Materials Science
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow
  • Microelectronics