San José State University

San Jose State University Department of Sociology & Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, One Washington Square, San Jose, California 95192, USA

408-924-4054

Approximately 1200 square foot laboratory
AMCA 210-99 Airflow Test Chamber from Airflow Measurement Systems; used to measure chassis impedance, generate specified flow rates, and determine fan performance (shown below)
Large closed loop wind tunnel
Small airflow test chamber for analyzing component-level performance, such as heat sinks.
Low-speed (0-2 m/s), low-turbulence intensity wind tunnel
National Instruments and Agilent automated data acquisition systems with a site license for LabView.
Infrared camera
Thermal interface material tester
Ultra-high precision electronic scale
3-D printer
A wide variety of standard laboratory equipment such as handheld thermocouple readers, a high-precision electronic manometer (Microtector), and pressure transducers

Academic site license for the suite of ANSYS CFD and finite element programs, including Fluent and IcePack
Academic site license for solid modelling software such as Solidwork
Academic site license for Engineering Equation Solver (EES), a simultaneous equation solver with Thermophysical properties built in that is good for thermal system analysis

Numerical modeling of electronic systems requiring thermal management
Experimental testing of electronic components and systems cooled using single-phase convection (both air and liquid)
Cooling of high heat density electronics
Design and testing of advanced thermal interface materials
Micro heat pipe analysis
Heat pipe fabrication and testing
Microchannel heat transfer
Modeling of thermal management of data centers
Experimental testing of components used in data center cooling
Heat exchanger design and testing

Nicole Okamoto, Sohail Zaidi, Farzan Kazemifar

Center for Thermal Management Research

Dr. Nicole Okamoto

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