Technical Papers on the PCBCAT

• AVS Visulization of PCBCAT Output
  ``A Visualization Tool for CFD Models of Convectively Cooled Printed Circuit Boards'', Gerald Recktenwald and Peter Gotseff, presented at the 1995 ASME National Heat Transfer Conference in Portland, Oregon, August 1995.
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  • Full paper in PDF (406 K file)
    The following two figures are included in the PDF version of the full paper. You can get them separately as PDF files, below.
  • Figure 4 in color PDF (258 K file)
  • Figure 5 in color PDF (34 K file)

• Concise Summary of the Theory
  ``Prediction of Device Temperatures with Depth-Averaged Models of the Flow Field over Printed Circuit Boards'', Gerald Recktenwald, presented at the 1995 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in San Francisco, November 1995
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• Overview of the The PCBCAT Tools
  ``Using the PCBCAT to Model Convective Heat Transfer from Electronic Devices on Printed Circuit Boards'', Gerald Recktenwald, presented at the 1995 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in San Francisco, November 1995
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