ABSTRACT
In this chapter you will learn a lot about thermal spreading resistance, the heat conduction from a single heat source centered on a heat conducting substrate. Most results are quoted for a substrate or plate that has an adiabatic boundary condition at the source plane, Newtonian cooling at the opposing plane, and presumes steady-state conditions. This chapter will conform to this description, except that a time-dependent solution that ultimately converges to a steady solution will also be studied.
