A convective cooling apparatus cools an electronic device including at
least one heat-generating component and enclosed in a case having cooling
medium such as air or fluid therein. The convective cooling apparatus
neither attempts to increase the velocity of flow in the cooling medium
nor replaces the cooling medium with other material as prior art cooling
apparatus did. Instead, it utilizes the instability which is inherent in
the flow of the cooling medium. In the convective cooling apparatus, by
using a driver for generating a signal tuned to the characteristic
frequency of the flow, a an acoustic vibrator is driven to provide
acoustic waves. The acoustic waves induce resonance of flow, which
renders the cooling medium vigorously mixed, which, in turn, enhances the
heat dissipation from the device.