Thermal Spreading and Contact Resistance

Thermal Spreading and Contact Resistance is the first book to provide a single source of information for engineers who need understand thermal spreading and contact resistance for a wide range of applications. Written by two of the leading experts in the field, it covers applications of problems where heat transfer from discrete heat sources is prevalent, including contact conductance, mass transfer, transport from super-hydrophobic surfaces, droplet/surface phase change problems, tribology, and heat transfer in micro-devices and thermal spreaders. After opening with an introduction to fundamental principles, the book goes on to cover thermal spreading in isotropic half-space regions, circular flux tubes and disc spreaders, rectangular flux channels and spreaders, orthotropic systems, and multi-source applications. Further chapters explore topics such as systems with non-uniform sink plane conductance, transient spreading resistance, and contact resistance between both non-conforming and conforming surfaces. Numerous predictive models and examples and included throughout and a useful appendix provides special functions and series solutions that readers can use to further their own research.