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Latest Posts

• Why Not Just Shove a Heatsink on Top of it? Part 2: Heat Flow Budgets
• Why Not Just Shove a Heatsink on Top of it? Part 1
• Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 5: Detailed IC Package Model Calibration Methodology
• CFD – Colourful Friday Distractions
• Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 4: Compact Thermal Models
• Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 3: JESD51-14

Archives

• May 2013 (2)
  • Why Not Just Shove a Heatsink on Top of it? Part 2: Heat Flow Budgets
  • Why Not Just Shove a Heatsink on Top of it? Part 1
• April 2013 (3)
  • Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 5: Detailed IC Package Model Calibration Methodology
  • CFD – Colourful Friday Distractions
  • Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 4: Compact Thermal Models
• February 2013 (1)
  • Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 3: JESD51-14
• January 2013 (2)
  • Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 2: TIM Thermal Conductivity
  • Experiment vs. Simulation, Part 1: Them and Us.
• September 2012 (1)
  • “Why Cartesian Grids Are Good”
• August 2012 (2)
  • Where’s the Best Place to Put a Radiator in a Room? Part 5: Get a Job
  • Where’s the Best Place to Put a Radiator in a Room? Part 4: Premature Simulation
• July 2012 (3)
  • Where’s the Best Place to Put a Radiator in a Room? Part 3: 13% Better
  • Where’s the Best Place to Put a Radiator in a Room? Part 2: PMV and other TLAs
  • Where’s the Best Place to Put a Radiator in a Room. Part 1: Such Things are Important
• May 2012 (2)
  • Agile software development practices in the Mechanical Analysis Division
  • A Little Goes A Long Way (But A Lot Doesn’t Go Much Further)
• April 2012 (2)
  • More Than Two Decades and Still Going Strong; FloTHERM and FloVENT V9.3 Now Released
  • Simulation Software So Simple Even Teenagers Can Use It
• February 2012 (1)
  • Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 3 – Relieving Thermal Bottlenecks Reduce Temperatures
• January 2012 (5)
  • Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 2 – When TIMs Go Bad
  • Bridging the Simulation Supply Chain; NXP Semiconductors, a Case in Point
  • Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 1 – Great Thermal Bedfellows
  • Emails, more Emails and Jeff Bridges
  • LEDs; The future’s bright and hot.
• December 2011 (1)
  • From Megawatts to Milliwatts; sub-micron scale thermal modelling with FloTHERM
• November 2011 (1)
  • What! All that just for that? The bonkers world of CPU cooling.
• October 2011 (3)
  • Ho, Ho, Ho! Facebook moves to Lapland
  • All Detailed Thermal IC Package Models are Wrong… Probably
  • Underfloor Electric Heating. Part III – Penny wise, pound foolish.
• August 2011 (2)
  • Underfloor Electric Heating. Part II – Infrared Thermography
  • Underfloor Electric Heating. Part I: In by Christmas
• June 2011 (3)
  • Come, meet FloTHERM/VENT/EFD users, learn and enjoy!
  • PC Overclocking and Aftermarket Modding. Part III – Power vs. Frequency?
  • PC Overclocking and Aftermarket Modding. Part II – Liquid Nitrogen Overclocking, How Cool is That?
• May 2011 (1)
  • PC Overclocking and Aftermarket Modding. Part 1 – When Colour Matters.
• April 2011 (4)
  • Desktop PC with Integrated Toaster – As if!
  • Thermal Design Perfection Starts with the use of FloTHERM PACK
  • We Love FloTHERM V9.2
  • Desktop PC with Integrated Toaster – the Future is Now
• March 2011 (1)
  • Do you know the way to San Jose?
• February 2011 (1)
  • Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 6 – Baffles and Bottlenecks
• January 2011 (4)
  • FloEFD HVAC Module – Taking Built Environment CFD Simulation to the Next Level
  • Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 5 – Time for a FloBEER
  • Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 4 – FloBEER
  • Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 3 – Side Up or Upside Down?
• December 2010 (1)
  • Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 2 – TEC Effect
• November 2010 (3)
  • Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 1 – A Gift
  • What Can You Learn When You Turn It On?
  • We Love FloTHERM – 8 Reasons to Upgrade to V9.1
• October 2010 (2)
  • On the Vilification of Smokers
  • Identifying Thermal Bottlenecks and Shortcut Opportunities – Taking Simulation to the Next Level
• August 2010 (2)
  • How many frogs does a horse have?
  • It’s a wireless world! No it isn’t.
• July 2010 (4)
  • Are you using ‘Smart’ in a way I am not familiar with?
  • An Interview With… Clemens Lasance
  • I was led to believe we’d have flying cars by now
  • Red Hot Electronic Thermal Analysis?
• June 2010 (2)
  • The art of modelling using CFD. Part VI – Peripheral Boundary Conditions
  • The art of modelling using CFD. Part V – Grid
• May 2010 (4)
  • The art of modelling using CFD. Part IV – Fans
  • The art of modelling using CFD. Part III – TIGs
  • The art of modelling using CFD. Part II – Grilles
  • The art of modelling using CFD. Part I – What happens if you cross art with science?
• April 2010 (2)
  • How much do ‘U-Value’ good thermal insulation? Part VII – “Ooo, shut that door”
  • “A Faster Horse” – Mentor ‘IDEAS for Mechanical’ driving product development
• March 2010 (3)
  • How much do ‘U-Value’ good thermal insulation? Part VI – revenge of the radiative heat flux
  • IC package representation is central to Electronics Cooling
  • How much do ‘U-Value’ good thermal insulation? Part V
• February 2010 (3)
  • How much do ‘U-Value’ good thermal insulation? Part IV
  • How much do ‘U-Value’ good thermal insulation? Part III
  • How much do ‘U-Value’ good thermal insulation? Part II
• January 2010 (8)
  • How much do ‘U-Value’ good thermal insulation? Part I
  • Keeping the caveman warm – HVAC blog
  • FloVIZ, the free FloTHERM/FloVENT CFD results viewer, try it, it’s free
  • ‘Heat Trees’ – taking a leaf out of natures book
  • The Most Extreme CFD Model Ever Ever – Explained
  • FloTHERM and its new XML neutral file format
  • The Most Extreme CFD Model Ever Ever
  • So, you want to predict component temperatures do you? Part VII
• December 2009 (2)
  • So, you want to predict component temperatures do you? Part VI
  • So, you want to predict component temperatures do you? Part V
• November 2009 (3)
  • A trip to MPH and Top Gear Live
  • So, you want to predict component temperatures do you? Part IV
  • So, you want to predict component temperatures do you? Part III
• October 2009 (3)
  • So, you want to predict component temperatures do you? Part II
  • So, you want to predict component temperatures do you? Part I
  • Underfloor Thermal Insulation; Why? Part III
• September 2009 (3)
  • Underfloor Thermal Insulation; Why? Part II
  • Underfloor Thermal Insulation; Why? Part I
  • Is all Software Rubbish?
• August 2009 (3)
  • Thermatronic Stagnation (nothing to do with male deers)
  • Fractals: Gods Artwork, Part III
  • Thermatrons Must Leave
• July 2009 (9)
  • At the Speed of Heat
  • A Load of HVAC TLAs
  • How-to: Invert your thermal model to good effect
  • Clogged cooling fins, a cautionary tale
  • Invert your thermal model to good effect
  • “I work with computers”
  • Fractals: Gods Artwork, Part II
  • Fractals: Gods Artwork, Part I
  • “All models are wrong, but some are useful” Part V
• June 2009 (5)
  • 3D Electronics Cooling CFD, with FloTHERM, in Pictures
  • Spend some time with FlyGuy
  • “All models are wrong, but some are useful” Part IV
  • Flying
  • “All models are wrong, but some are useful” Part III
• May 2009 (3)
  • “All models are wrong, but some are useful” Part II
  • “All models are wrong, but some are useful” Part I
  • Welcome along!

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