Product Overview
Thermal Desktop is a PC based design environment for generating
thermal models of electronics and vehicles. Using Thermal Desktop,
engineers can use CAD drawings either directly as a thermal model.
Thermal Desktop is a graphical user interface (GUI) for
SINDA/FLUINT. Thermal Desktop incorporates both familiar parameter
based (TRASYS like) finite difference surfaces with finite elements
with CAD technology to model thermal problems.
Thermal Desktop develops the capacitance and conductance network
for input to SINDA/FLUINT Thermal Desktop has thermal analysis
specific type of capabilities such as applying contact conductance,
insulation, heat loads, and heaters. Thermal Desktop provides full
design parameterization using spreadsheet-like variables and
arbitrarily complex expressions as input, rather than hardwired
numbers. This allows complex models to be rapidly manipulated using
a few keystrokes, meaning that updating or maintaining a model is
trivially easy, as is performing sensitivity studies and
investigating what-if scenarios. This provides access to
SINDA/FLUINT's Optimization and Reliability Engineering modules,
which can be used to size components, maximize performance, find
worst-case operating conditions (design cases), correlate models to
test data, and even treat uncertainties statistically.
Thermal Desktop is available for PC as an AutoCAD extension module.
Autocad Invertor Suite is available bundled with Thermal Desktop
from C&R Technologies. The following add-on modules are
available to expand the capabilities of Thermal Desktop:
RadCAD is an optional thermal radiation analysis module for high
temperature and/or vacuum applications.
FloCAD adds the capability of modeling flow circuits, including
fans and convective heat transfer, attacheddirectly to the surfaces
and solids.
RadCAD and FloCAD are licensed separately separately from Thermal
Desktop allowing the user to tailor the software capabilities to
optimally meet analysis needs.
