From: Optimal Shapes of Straight Fins and Finned Heat Sinks Date of download: 9/27/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optimal Shapes of Straight Fins and Finned Heat Sinks J. Heat Transfer. 2015;137(6):061006-061006-8. doi:10.1115/1.4029854 Figure Legend: Schematics of a single fin (a) and a plate fin heat sink (b)

From: Optimal Shapes of Straight Fins and Finned Heat Sinks Date of download: 9/27/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optimal Shapes of Straight Fins and Finned Heat Sinks J. Heat Transfer. 2015;137(6):061006-061006-8. doi:10.1115/1.4029854 Figure Legend: Minimum thermal resistance as a function of volume for rectangular and triangular fins with an isothermal base. U∞ = 10 m/s, tb = 1 mm, and Tb - T∞ = 60 °C.

From: Optimal Shapes of Straight Fins and Finned Heat Sinks Date of download: 9/27/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optimal Shapes of Straight Fins and Finned Heat Sinks J. Heat Transfer. 2015;137(6):061006-061006-8. doi:10.1115/1.4029854 Figure Legend: Original heat sink, M=6.65 kg

From: Optimal Shapes of Straight Fins and Finned Heat Sinks Date of download: 9/27/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optimal Shapes of Straight Fins and Finned Heat Sinks J. Heat Transfer. 2015;137(6):061006-061006-8. doi:10.1115/1.4029854 Figure Legend: Optimized heat sink with rectangular fins using the analytical solution in Appendix A, M=3.41 kg

From: Optimal Shapes of Straight Fins and Finned Heat Sinks Date of download: 9/27/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optimal Shapes of Straight Fins and Finned Heat Sinks J. Heat Transfer. 2015;137(6):061006-061006-8. doi:10.1115/1.4029854 Figure Legend: Optimized heat sink with trapezoidal fins using the finite volume method M=2.75 kg

From: Optimal Shapes of Straight Fins and Finned Heat Sinks Date of download: 9/27/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Optimal Shapes of Straight Fins and Finned Heat Sinks J. Heat Transfer. 2015;137(6):061006-061006-8. doi:10.1115/1.4029854 Figure Legend: Mass and maximum temperature of optimized heat sinks with rectangular, triangular, and trapezoidal fins. The performance of heat sinks in Figs. 4 and 5 is marked with a circle and a square.