Application of CFD in the Electronics Industry
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CFD Electronics
Electronics Applications in STAR-CCM+
- Forced Convection Cooling of computer power supply
- Passive (Natural) cooling of an outdoor construction radio
- Liquid-cooled cold plate for Power Electronics
- Component-Level simulation
- Board-Level Simulation
- System Level Simulation
- Data Center/ Rooms Cooling/ Architectural
- Altitude Performace sweep of Avionics Chassis
- Air-cooled Heat sink optimization
- Electrical-thermal coupled simulation of the lighting circuit
- Fan & Blower Acoustics
- IGBT Liquid-Cooled Heat Sink
- Fogging/ De-fogging of Automotive Headlamp
- Thermal radiation effects in an Ultra-high Pressure Lamp
- LED light bulb thermal performance
- Silicon Wafer Cleaning
- Solar telescope heat stop design
- Spray Cooling of an Electric Motor
Why is CFD Electronics Cooling Simulation Necessary Today?
System Complexity
- Increase inboard and component level complexity
- Development of interdependent systems of systems
Reliability Requirements
- Avoid costly system failures
- Eliminate product recalls and resulting reputational damage
Time-to-Market Pressure
- Maximize addressable market
- Increase development pace through digital design/test
Improve product performance
- Optimize the performance of the thermal management system
- Quickly identify the causes of poor performance/failures
- Reduce power consumption
Reduce development time and cost
- Leverage simulation earlier in the design cycle
- Reduce turnaround time to evaluate each proposed design
- Minimize the need for prototyping
1. Flexible Geometry Creation
- Import geometry data from a variety of sources
- Create geometry from scratch using templated components
- Easily modify existing geometry
2.
Automated Simulation Setup
- Intuitive GUI
- Minimal number of clicks to set up
- Automated setup with fewer inputs
3. Streamlined Post Processing
- Easily visualize simulation results
- Quickly measure key performance metrics
4. Design Space Exploration
- Quickly test many design variants
- Evaluate performance over a range of operating conditions
5. Ability to Model Complex Physics
“Headroom” to add extra fidelity to baseline simulation with complex physical phenomena
- Multiphase flow phenomena
- Interaction with control systems and other external influences
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E-Cool – Electronics Cooling Toolset in Simcenter STAR-CCM+
- The Electronics cooling toolset (E-Cool)
- Simplified simulation tree
- Quickparts
- Built-in best-practice settings
- Single click automatic meshing
- Templated Scenes and Reports
- Access to the full Simcenter STAR-CCM+ feature set
- Importing and creating geometries
- Design Manager
Electronic Cooling Toolset (E-Cool)
E-Cool is a specialized environment in Simcenter STAR-CCM+ for the electronics industry:
- Easily accessed via a toolbar button
- Provides a dedicated workflow for quick and efficient simulation setup, run and analysis
- Automatic setup with minimal user input
Simplified Simulation Tree
A more focused environment promotes a more efficient and easy to learn workflow:
- Only the tools relevant to electronics cooling are exposed in the E-Cool simulation tree
- The cut-down tree provides a cleaner and more efficient and focused user experience
Quickparts
- Quickparts contain both geometry and physical attributes for each component:
- Can be imported or created directly in Simcenter STAR-CCM+ from parametric templates
- Variety of component types represented including heatsink, chip, PCB, enclosure and axial or radial fans
- Templated components are parameterized to allow quick design changes and optimization
- Once created, a quick part automatically interfaces with the other components in the simulation
Built-in best practice settings
- Best-practice mesh and solver settings for heat transfer simulations are automatically applied by the tool
- User should not need to change anything to get an acceptable first run
- Settings are editable to allow the user to control speed or accuracy as desired
Automatic meshing
- No user input required to create a basic mesh
- Size based on basic geometry dimensions
- Uses trimmed mesh for a good balance of speed, robustness, and accuracy
- Local mesh refinement can be added where necessary
- In-place contacts created automatically
Templated scenes, plots, and reports
- Assess and understand product performance by visualizing the flow and thermal behavior
- Easily generate reports to quantify component performance:
- The user chooses field and component
- The report returns min, max, volumetric mean
- 2D plotting supported:
- Evaluate design variations
- Make comparisons with experimental data
Access to the full Simcenter STAR-CCM+ feature set
- E-Cool is a streamlined environment for the basic setup of electronics cooling simulations
- The full power of Simcenter STAR-CCM+ can be accessed at any time:
- Complex flow phenomena (including phase change and advanced turbulence models)
- Multiphysics (including solid Stress and aeroacoustics)
- Advanced Post processing (including volume rendering)
- Interaction with other tools / systems / controls through Co-Simulation
Importing and creating geometries
Geometry files can be imported from a variety of sources:
- Intermediate Data Format (IDF) files import supported
- Options to filter components on import
- Multiple CAD formats supported:
- Native: NX, Solidedge, Catia, Solidworks, Inventor, Creo, Rhino
- Neutral: Parasolid, Step, Iges, VDA, ACIS
- Generic geometries can be created directly using built-in templated components
Design Manager
E-Cool can leverage design manager for design exploration:
- Parameter sweeps:
- Verify thermal performance over a full operation range
- Characterize the performance of the cooling system
- Improve designs using best-in-class optimization algorithm:
- No tuning of parameters required
- No expertise in optimization techniques needed
- Quickly reduce design space to focus on a few key designs
Improve product performance, Reduce development time and cost
- Dedicated productivity tool for electronics cooling applications
- Automated setup incorporating established best practices
- Streamlined workflow from geometry definition to visualization and analysis
- Parameterized components enable design exploration
- Extend simulation scope, leveraging the full power of Simcenter STAR-CCM+
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