An Intelligent System for the Heatsink Design.

Via two-stage back-propagation neural network (BNN) learning algorithm, this paper establishes the relationship between different heatsink design parameters and performance evaluation, and induces 5 corresponding performance outputs from 6 different heatsink design and operating condition parameters (inlet airflow velocity, heatsink length or width, fin thickness, fin gap, fin height and heatsink base height) by using Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD). After two stages well-trained, the BNN model with error compensator is able to accurate estimate the output values under different heatsink design and operation conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]