Softwares for electronic cooling
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2022 3:44 am
Hello, I have a few knowledge in CFD and hope to improve myself.
I live in France.
I am a mechanical engineer and I used to deal with strength of materials and Finite Elements Analysis.
But in my company, one recently asked me to deal with a new field : Fluid mechanics and thermal issues.
To be more precise, I have to solve electronic cooling issues. In other words, cooling PCB with power components with fluids and/or thermal diffusion (in solid).
So I am looking for a software that can handle these two sorts of problems : fluid mechanics and thermal diffusion.
But I don't know what software can do that except commercial softwares like Ansys.
I've been heard about OpenFoam and Code_Saturne.
Can someone here give me some advice about that ?
Is Code_Saturne appropriate ?
If no, which software is better ? which is the easiest to learn or to handle ?
Thank you by advance.
I live in France.
I am a mechanical engineer and I used to deal with strength of materials and Finite Elements Analysis.
But in my company, one recently asked me to deal with a new field : Fluid mechanics and thermal issues.
To be more precise, I have to solve electronic cooling issues. In other words, cooling PCB with power components with fluids and/or thermal diffusion (in solid).
So I am looking for a software that can handle these two sorts of problems : fluid mechanics and thermal diffusion.
But I don't know what software can do that except commercial softwares like Ansys.
I've been heard about OpenFoam and Code_Saturne.
Can someone here give me some advice about that ?
Is Code_Saturne appropriate ?
If no, which software is better ? which is the easiest to learn or to handle ?
Thank you by advance.