MIE 1242 Syllabus

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MIE 1242 : Applied Thermal Management:

Applications in Electric Vehicles, Electronic Systems, and Datacenters

Instructor : Aydin Nabovati, PhD


[email protected]

Week Lecture Topic Evaluation Milestones


Introduction to thermal management
1) what is involved?
2) Why is it important?
3) Examples
a) Electric Vehicles
1
b) Autonomous systems
(Sep 12) c) Consumer Electronics
d) Datacenters and supercomputers

Final Project – Introduction

Process of Product Design


1) Concept
2) Architecture
2 3) Life Cycle Assessment
4) Design and optimization
(Sep 19)
5) Validation
6) Manufacturing
7) Quality Control

Fundamentals of Fluid Flow & Heat Transfer


1) Fluid Flow HW-1
a) Internal Viscous Flow
b) Flow networks
c) Rheology
2) Conduction
3 a) Steady state
(Sep 26) b) Transient
c) Spreading resistance
d) Non-Fourier heat Transfer
3) Convection
a) Forced
b) Natural

Fundamentals of Fluid Flow & Heat Transfer - continued Due date for HW-1
4) Boiling
5) Thermal network and 1D modelling

4 Different types of cooling solutions


1) Environment (no heatsink)
(Oct 3)
2) Passive
3) Active
a) Air cooled
b) Liquid cooled
i) Single phase
(1) Closed loop
(2) Immersion
ii) Two phase
(1) Closed loop
(2) Immersion

Final Project – review milestones

5
Reading week – no class
(Oct 10)
Heat Transfer enhancement
1. Fin enhancement
2. Heatpipe
6 3. Vapor Chambers
4. 3D vapor chambers
(Oct 17)
5. Thermosyphon
6. Heat spreaders (Graphite, Graphene, CNTs, …)
7. Thermoelectric cooling

7 Review of cooling in Electrics Vehicle HW-2


Review of Final Project
(Oct 24)
Thermal Interface Materials Due date for HW-2
1. Why needed and how used Bonus Project
2. Thermal contact resistance
8 3. Different types of TIM
(Oct 31) 4. Characterization (ASTM, ISO)
5. Reliability testing and common issues
6. Hand on experience

Hands on industrial examples HW-3


1) Consumer: Hot-to-touch limit and skin temperature for hand-
9 held devices
(Nov 7) 2) Datacenters: Coolant selection for a liquid cooled system
3) AI: Heatsink optimization based on first principals

10 An introduction to Supercomputers’ cooling Due date for HW-3


Review of Final Projects
(Nov 14)
Acoustics in engineering systems HW-4
1. General introduction
11 2. Sounds Measurement
(Nov 21) 3. Sound quality
4. Live demonstration

Reliability of Thermal Management Systems Due date for HW-4


1. Review of Reliability concepts
12 2. Typical reliability tests
(Nov 28) 3. Acceleration factor
4. DFMEA

13 Final Project Reports Due by EOD


Presentation on Final Project Friday 12/1 (no exception)
(Sep 5)

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