In this study, cooling of small form factor computer is numerically investigated. The numerical model is analyzed using a commercial computational fluid dynamics software Icepak&trade / . The effects of grid selection, discretization schemes and turbulence models are discussed and presented. In addition, physical phenomena like recirculation and relaminarization are addressed briefly. For a comparison with the computational fluid dynamics results, an experiment is conducted and some temperature measurements are obtained from critical locations inside the chassis.The computational results were found to be in good agreement with the experimental ones.

The widespread deployment of wireless sensors in our homes, offices, factories and infrastructure has opened the door for system designers to create novel approaches for powering wireless sensor nodes. In recent years, energy harvesting has emerged as the power supply of choice for embedded system designers, enabling wireless sensors to be used in applications that previously were not feasible with conventional battery-powered designs. This report details the design and development of an energy harvesting wireless sensor from concept to production. Design constraints included the requirement to operate reliably in a wide variety of environments, the use of commercially available components, and a visually appealing form factor. The result is a very power-efficient, solar-powered wireless sensor that measures temperature, voltage, and illumination level at the solar cell and has an ultra slim form factor. / text