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…

Top 7 FloTHERM V11 Features – #2: FloMCAD’s Voxelize

Top 7 FloTHERM V11 Features – #2: FloMCAD’s Voxelize

The simulation of MCAD geometry is a day to day requirement for the majority of thermal design engineers, especially those…

Top 7 FloTHERM V11 Features – #1: Joule Heating

Top 7 FloTHERM V11 Features – #1: Joule Heating

FloTHERM V11 is now released and contains a wealth of interesting and useful features. In this blog series I’ll select…

Organically Grown 3D Printable Heatsinks – Part 4: A Fully Automated Methodology

Organically Grown 3D Printable Heatsinks – Part 4: A Fully Automated Methodology

The additive design methodology itself is quite straightforward. It is however highly repetitive. Perform a simulation, identify a maximum temperature…

Organically Grown 3D Printable Heatsinks – Part 3: Smoothing the Edges

Organically Grown 3D Printable Heatsinks – Part 3: Smoothing the Edges

The shape of the small piece of geometry that is added so as to successively ‘relieve’ the design determines the…

Organically Grown 3D Printable Heatsinks – Part 2: Trunks and Branches

Organically Grown 3D Printable Heatsinks – Part 2: Trunks and Branches

Adrian Bejan’s Constructal Law states: “For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such…

Organically Grown 3D Printable Heatsinks – Part 1: A Simple Iterative Procedure

Organically Grown 3D Printable Heatsinks – Part 1: A Simple Iterative Procedure

This is what a typical extruded fin heatsink looks like. It’s made of metal and sits on top of IC…