There has been much talk about the appification of established technologies. Discussion on the appification of high-value CAE simulation seems to have focused on the fact that it's a when, not if. How such a conclusion has been made without a clarification of what 'appification' actually is, is confounding. Apps are cheap, limited in the scope of their application and, as a … [Read more...]

A reliable electronic product is generally a cool one. In addition, one of the main limiters of non-functional performance is operating temperature. Keep your product cool and it will last longer and/or operate faster. Electronics thermal management has been dogged by thermal resistances at part/part interfaces for decades. Reduce these main bottlenecks in the heat flow path … [Read more...]

Available in the recently released FloTHERM V11.1 is the ability to calibrate a FloTHERM simulation model so that it matches experimentally measured results. The calibration process is automatic and results in a model with unrivaled levels of predictive accuracy. The experimental results used are not simple thermocouple based measurements, but T3Ster based measurements that … [Read more...]

A grid (mesh) defines a tessellated collection of small volumes that cover the 3D volume of space that is to be simulated using CFD. The governing equations are integrated (discretized) over these volumes and solved iteratively until they those equations are satisfied. Out of the process comes predicted values of temperature, pressure, velocity etc. at each of those grid cells. … [Read more...]

Software can be described in two ways, what it does (functional) and how it does it (non-functional). As a software matures in terms of its functional capability it is often the case that more effort goes in to developing it's non-functional strengths. We introduced 'FloSCRIPT' with V10, a scripting language to enable FloTHERM to be operated without the need for laborious … [Read more...]