I was thinking recently that maybe we can use sound to control heat dissipation. Heat is a manifestation of kinetic energy. If you could pulsate pressure waves through an object you could massage the heat in a specif direction.

My application would be for CPUs. You would pulsate heat towards the heatsink using a tone generate on the underside of the socket.

A. I really don't have a strong mathematical grasp of the physics. B. I imagine the frequency of the waves might damage the silicone lattice. C. Other issues I don't have the knowledge to even consider.

This is just an idea that came to as I was walking home from work. I'm sure it's absolute hogwash.

This is a fascinating idea... don't think of it as a tone generator for a heatsink (well, not initially -- though that may be one use case)... think of this as a research project... heat dissipation vs. temperature vs. vibrations vs. material vs. shape...

In other words, the more materials you could test at different temperatures, with different types of vibration going through them, the more you'd gain an understanding of the phenomena... perhaps there's a new theory or discovery in there... I can see the research paper or theory: "Heat dissipation via pulsation in different materials at different frequencies".

Of course, you might fail... but you'd (have to!) learn a lot of things from diverse areas of physics (and probably math too) in the process!

That would be a win, no matter what.

I'll be interested to read your upcoming initial blog post/research

This is really interesting

Fascinating! Did not know this until now.