PCB Thermal Simulation - RTP Designers Council
PCB Thermal Simulation - RTP Designers Council
PCB Thermal Simulation - RTP Designers Council
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14<br />
<strong>Thermal</strong> Design Tools<br />
Hand calculations/Spreadsheet<br />
— Excellent tool for early design exploration<br />
Finite Element Analysis (FEA)<br />
— 3D numerical analysis<br />
— Typically doesn’t calculate convective heat transfer and<br />
radiation explicitly<br />
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)<br />
— 3D Conjugate fluid flow and heat transfer numerical<br />
analysis<br />
Lab tests<br />
— Most value when used as a model validation - rather<br />
than for parametric investigation<br />
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