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Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 5 – Time for a FloBEER

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 5 – Time for a FloBEER

All good things come to those who wait. For beer this entails a trade off between anticipation and satisfaction. If,…

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 4 – FloBEER

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 4 – FloBEER

As the ancient proverb goes; a beer fridge without beer is like X Factor, utterly pointless. You’d have thought that…

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 3 – Side Up or Upside Down?

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 3 – Side Up or Upside Down?

The futility of investigating the cooling effectiveness of any empty fridge is beginning to dawn on me, the irony of…

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 2 – TEC Effect

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 2 – TEC Effect

Beer drinkers are notoriously quiet people and as such would not want to be disturbed by the continuous hissing and…

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 1 – A Gift

Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 1 – A Gift

My boss, Roland, relocated from Germany to the UK a couple of years ago and has taken to life in…

What Can You Learn When You Turn It On?

What Can You Learn When You Turn It On?

Power on an IC package, measure the resulting transient response of the junction temperature and from that infer a wealth…

We Love FloTHERM – 8 Reasons to Upgrade to V9.1

We Love FloTHERM – 8 Reasons to Upgrade to V9.1

Here at the Mechanical Analysis Department we love FloTHERM and we love developing FloTHERM to ensure it keeps up with…

On the Vilification of Smokers

On the Vilification of Smokers

On a recent trip to Japan I was surprised to find out how much their attitudes to smoking had changed….

Identifying Thermal Bottlenecks and Shortcut Opportunities – Taking Simulation to the Next Level

Identifying Thermal Bottlenecks and Shortcut Opportunities – Taking Simulation to the Next Level

Simulation has, to date, focused primarily on the prediction of an operating state that is compared to a design acceptable…