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Surface plot of air speed between heat sink fins in Simcenter Flotherm XT

How to measure flow rate through a heat sink in Simcenter Flotherm XT

Often in a CFD model I want to know about the fluid flow rate passing through a heat sink and…

Design space exploration for aircraft landing gear

Design space exploration for aircraft systems with Simcenter

Find out the new Siemens methodology for design space exploration applied to aircraft landing gear

Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace

Towards another record year of space launches

Read about space launches and how to perform safe and efficient space qualification testing to optimize spacecraft testing. Read the white paper.

ECXML file format - electronics thermal model (JEDEC JEP181 guideline) & Simcenter Flotherm

What STEP was for CAD, ECXML is for electronics thermal simulation

‘Electronics Cooling eXtensible Markup Language’ (ECXML) is a neutral file format intended to facilitate the provision of thermal models from…

5 reasons why superior vehicle durability matters

Vehicle durability is still as important today as it was yesterday. Understand why it still matters in 2020 and learn about the latest technologies that help you meet strength and durability targets.

Understand vehicle dynamics and comfort

Chengdu: driver experience testing center for superior ride comfort

How the Chengdu driver experience lab helps to study possible discomfort related to a car’s driving behavior and NVH comfort early in development.

V8 on my mind

Memories of a n ICE guy

Diesel is just not a proper propulsion system at all, downsizing is a crime, and anyways, no direct injection engine is a real engine, it has to be naturally aspirated…or do I recall that wrong?

Simcenter Flotherm 2020.1 release new features includes VHDL-AMS Thermal Netlists and other reduced order modeling enhancments

Simcenter Flotherm 2020.1: What’s new

The latest release of Simcenter Flotherm 2020.1, for electronics thermal analysis has been released.   Below is a brief description on…

Electrothermal analysis aided by VHDL-AMS thermal netlist from Simcenter Flotherm

Electrothermal circuit simulation enabled by VHDL-AMS thermal netlists

Using circuit simulation software without incorporating electrothermal analysis to account for temperature effects and heat dissipation is a pretty big…