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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…

Top 7 FloTHERM V11 Features – #5: Overlapping Localized Grid

Top 7 FloTHERM V11 Features – #5: Overlapping Localized Grid

A grid (mesh) defines a tessellated collection of small volumes that cover the 3D volume of space that is to…

Top 7 FloTHERM V11 Features – #4: FloMCAD Automation

Top 7 FloTHERM V11 Features – #4: FloMCAD Automation

Software can be described in two ways, what it does (functional) and how it does it (non-functional). As a software…

A FloEFD Halloween Horror Story

A FloEFD Halloween Horror Story

Picture the scene… The news channels had been reporting the disappearance of Simon Cary from the All Hallows Asylum for…