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When designing electronic enclosures for harsh environments every
aspect of cooling must be optimized.
The advanced Product Development Group at Miltope Corporation has
turned to Coolit to help achieve proper cooling in their new rugged
ATR file server designed for in-flight entertainment.
The model was first created with the size and placement of the
cooling vents based on intuitive thinking, which was to use vents
as large as possible. It was determined by the CFD model and later
verified with lab testing that intuitive thinking can be very distant
from the optimal design.
By reducing the size of the vents and optimizing their positions,
the majority of airflow was concentrated over the hot components.
The final configuration was found more quickly and at a minimum
cost when compared to iterative testing on physical models.
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