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Chaotic Fluid Dynamics Part 3 – Wheels

Rayleigh–Bénard convection involves the transport of heat from a hot bottom surface to a cold top surface. If the temperature…

Chaotic Fluid Dynamics Part 2 – Butterflies

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the message was lost.
For want of a message the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

Chaotic Fluid Dynamics Part 1 – Rabbits

A person walks into a bar and asks the bartender “what’s the difference between period doubling routes to turbulence and fluffle demography?” The bartender replies “less than you might think”.

How Cool is that? A 1D3D Approach to Simulating Liquid Cooling

The accuracy of 3D in a 1D Systems Simulation context. Breaking down barriers using 1D3D approaches.

Facebook Live Event on Tuesday July 11th – Frontloading CFD: How and Why?

Facebook Live Event on Tuesday July 11th – Frontloading CFD: How and Why?

Performing more thermo-fluids simulation, earlier in a product design process, will mitigate the risks of late stage redesign and the…

SEMI-THERM 33 – ‘A History of Commercial CFD’ Short Course

SEMI-THERM 33 – ‘A History of Commercial CFD’ Short Course

At this year’s SEMI-THERM symposium next week in San Jose, John Parry and I will be presenting a short course…

Talking CFD Podcast – Democratization, Appification and Strategy

Talking CFD Podcast – Democratization, Appification and Strategy

I had the pleasure recently to talk with Robin Knowles as part of his Talking CFD podcast series. All credit…

A Novel Approach to Reducing Heatsink Mass Whilst Preserving Thermal Performance, using FloTHERM

A Novel Approach to Reducing Heatsink Mass Whilst Preserving Thermal Performance, using FloTHERM

Heatsinking is a common method to facilitate the removal of heat from a dissipating component, thus reducing source (junction) temperature….

Response Surface and Sequential Optimisation of a Heatsink Using FloTHERM. Part 6 – Response Surface Models

Response Surface and Sequential Optimisation of a Heatsink Using FloTHERM. Part 6 – Response Surface Models

So far we’ve looked at a couple of ways to optimise the design of a heatsink to meet some quantified…