Aircooling (also: air cooling) is one method of dissipating heat. It works by using a fan blowing air into the object one wants to cool. Usually, a heatsink is also used for greater efficiency. A red-hot iron rod cooling after being worked by a blacksmith. ... Household Electric Fan A fan has two purposes – to move air for creature comfort or for ventilation and to move air or gas from one location to another for industrial purposes. ... Air is a name for the mixture of gases present in the Earths atmosphere. ... A large copper heatsink. ...

Its use is widespread in CPU cooling, where the computer processors produce large quantities of heat that, if not dissipated, could damage the CPU. A fan blowing at a CPU heatsink. ... A CPU The exact term processor is a sub-system of a data processing system which processes received information after it has been encoded into data by the input sub-system. ...

It is said that in the future new processors would be generate too much heat to be dissipated through air, and it would follow that aircooling is becoming obsolete.

Aircooling is also used in some internal combustion engines, especially flat or boxer engines such as in the VW Beetle. A colorized automobile engine An internal combustion engine is an engine that is powered by the expansion of hot combustion products of fuel directly acting within an engine. ... Diagram of the opposing pistons in a boxer engine A flat engine or boxer engine or horizontally opposed engine is a type of engine where the pistons lie horizontally opposed, with pairs of cylinders on the left and the right, as opposed to most modern engines where all pistons are... The Volkswagen Beetle or Bug is a small family car, the best known car of Volkswagen, of Germany, and almost certainly the world. ...

See also

• CPU cooling
• Watercooling
• Heat pipe cooling
• Peltier cooling