Thermal Desktop 5.2
Introduction
Thermal Desktop is the first package to offer the thermal engineer full access to CAD-based geometry and CAD model building methods without expecting the thermal engineer to be a CAD expert and without compromising the unique aspects of thermal design analysis.
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 parameterisation 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 Optimisation and Reliability Engineering modules, which can be used to size components, maximise 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 a stand-alone tool (no external CAD package required) or as an AutoCAD extension module.