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This chapter on heat sinks is devoted to examples of industrial LED applications and offers ways to arrive at an optimal choice for a heat sink given a certain application. The selection of cooling solutions for LED applications should be based on an overall system-board-component level investigation rather than on solving individual component problems. From a total system perspective, this approach will result in cheaper or better thermal management solutions. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses are a very valuable tool to arrive at the best possible solution at the system, board, and component levels. Within this process, compact heat sink modeling is required and a method is presented how to realize this for various geometries.
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Engelberts, N. (2014). Considerations for an Optimal Choice of Heat Sinks for LED Applications. In: Lasance, C., Poppe, A. (eds) Thermal Management for LED Applications. Solid State Lighting Technology and Application Series, vol 2. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5091-7_10
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