help:Heatsink types

[gholamghar]

Hello
I am working on a Heat transfer project and I should choose a heatsink for my project,the problem is i am not familiar with different typess of heatsinks very well and i need to know what are different types of Heatsinks.in wikipedia in this page:
Heat sink - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

i found out there are pin fin, straight fin and flared heat sink types but i need to know more types of heat sinks,is there any sites,webpages,pdfs, articles ... that has described or demonstrated differ types of Heatsinks?
I really really appreciate if anyone could help me about this.
Thanks in advance

 

[Reloadron]

Start by **broken link removed** Yes, there are literally hundreds of styles and designs of heat sinks out there. I suggest you start with determining how much heat from how much area you want to move or dissipate. Since nobody knows your goal or project it is sort of hard to make suggestions. You have an open ended question with countless answers.

Ron

 

[Birdman Adam]

What device are you mounting the heatsink to? Some things, like CPU's, and northbridges have different standard socket designs.