High performance fan tail heat exchanger

A heat exchanger having a primary fin field that increases the flow rate of fluid passing through said field and reduces thermal resistance for fluid passing through a heat exchange field,

• said heat exchanger dissipating heat from a heat generating component and having a thermally conductive primary base in thermal communication with said component,
• said primary base defining a substantial planar region, a plurality of thermally conductive plate fins affixed to said primary base in a spaced relationship along said substantially planar region, said bottom of said fins is affixed to said base at a straight angle, said plate fins defining a primary fin field of channels, a top region, an intake region and an exhaust region, and said plate fins having a uniform cross-sectional area extending from the base to the top region;;
• said plate fins forming a fan tail for providing a large control volume of fluid passing through the heat exchanger and minimizing fluid by-pass, wherein the width of the primary fin field adjacent to the top region is greater than the width of the primary fin field adjacent to the base;
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• said top region of said primary fin field defining a flat planar surface area parallel to the planar region of said base such that each fin in said primary fin field extends from said base to said top region and each fin in said primary fin field provides a uniform effective length for improving convection.