Simulation Heatsink Orientation on Thermal Dissipation Performance, Study Case in Active Cooling M.2 NVMe

Thermal management plays a vital role in ensuring the overall performance. SSD (Solid State Drive) NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) is latest generation of data storage that periodically generates unwanted heat. The present paper presents simulation result of heatsink orientation as presented in different models. The selected techniques include forced convection from air flow which will dissipate amount of heat from base area. We select M.2 NVME as study case which coupled with heatsink. The result was higher velocity resulting in lower gap temperature. Case VIII has the lowest temperature gap (3 Kelvin) while the highest is Case III (10.63 Kelvin). Then, the optimum model based on temperature and mass parameter is model B.