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Response Surface and Sequential Optimisation of a Heatsink Using FloTHERM. Part 5 – Sequential Optimisation and Compound Cost Functions

Response Surface and Sequential Optimisation of a Heatsink Using FloTHERM. Part 5 – Sequential Optimisation and Compound Cost Functions

Sequential optimisation is an alternative optimisation strategy that can be run in FloTHERM’s Command Center module. As with response surface…

Response Surface and Sequential Optimisation of a Heatsink Using FloTHERM. Part 4 – Response Surface Inspection

Response Surface and Sequential Optimisation of a Heatsink Using FloTHERM. Part 4 – Response Surface Inspection

To recap… So far in this series we’ve: Taken a simple FloTHERM application of a component+heatsink placed on a PCB…

Response Surface and Sequential Optimisation of a Heatsink Using FloTHERM. Part 3 – Cost Function Response Surfaces

Response Surface and Sequential Optimisation of a Heatsink Using FloTHERM. Part 3 – Cost Function Response Surfaces

A design of experiments based study will provide a scatter gun type indication of how the system performs with a…

Happy Lunar New Year! – FloEFD Investigates Sky Lantern Aerodynamics

Happy Lunar New Year! – FloEFD Investigates Sky Lantern Aerodynamics

Happy Chinese new year, wishing you all prosperity, luck, health and fortune in this, the year of the Monkey! Also…

Response Surface and Sequential Optimisation of a Heatsink Using FloTHERM. Part 2 – Design of (Computational) Experiments

Response Surface and Sequential Optimisation of a Heatsink Using FloTHERM. Part 2 – Design of (Computational) Experiments

The most effective, but least efficient, method to determine an optimal combination of design parameters is to consider every single…

Response Surface and Sequential Optimisation of a Heatsink Using FloTHERM. Part 1 – Defining a Design Space

Response Surface and Sequential Optimisation of a Heatsink Using FloTHERM. Part 1 – Defining a Design Space

Heatsinks are a very common method of aiding the transfer of heat from a source (e.g. IC die) to a…

The Appification of CFD Simulation has Started

The Appification of CFD Simulation has Started

There has been much talk about the appification of established technologies. Discussion on the appification of high-value CAE simulation seems…

Room Temperature Metal Bonding – Heralding a Revolution In IC Performance and Reliability?

Room Temperature Metal Bonding – Heralding a Revolution In IC Performance and Reliability?

A reliable electronic product is generally a cool one. In addition, one of the main limiters of non-functional performance is…

Automated Model Calibration in FloTHERM – A Future Cornerstone of Simulation Based Workflows, Today

Automated Model Calibration in FloTHERM – A Future Cornerstone of Simulation Based Workflows, Today

Available in the recently released FloTHERM V11.1 is the ability to calibrate a FloTHERM simulation model so that it matches…