Heat pipe book review: Chapter excerpt
Heat pipes are devices that conduct heat from one location to another. For some applications – some types of ovens, for example — they're used for their heating properties, but most often in electronics they're used for cooling: They can take heat from the densely-packed space around a microprocessor in a laptop and transfer it to an area more easily reached by a cooling fan. Don't confuse them with heat sinks, which mostly serve to disperse heat. Heat pipes are in the heat transport business.
Heat Pipes: Theory, Design, and Application by David Reay and Peter Kew, the definitive guide to heat pipe technology and its use, has been updated to reflect the advances in heat pipe technology due to the needs of consumer electronics that come in close contact with the user– heat pipes enable the "lap" in laptop. See for yourself: You can read Chapter 4 online right now for a sample of the book's design procedures and worked examples. And, a quick browse of Google Books shows that you can access Chapter 7 online here.
Heat Pipes: Theory, Design, and Application by David Reay and Peter Kew
…and here are some EDN articles on heat pipes, spreaders, and even fans:
